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CABOT    BIBLIOGRAPHY 


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CABOT  BIBLIOGRAPHY 


WITH   AN   INTRODUCTORY   ESSAY 


ON    THE    CAREERS    OF 


THE  CABOTS 


BASED    UPON   AN   INDEPENDENT   EXAMINATION 


OF   THE   SOURCES   OF   INFORMATION 


BY 


GEORGE  PARKER  WINSHIP 


NEW  YORK 
DODD,  MEAD  AND  COMPANY 

LONDON  :    HENRY    STEVENS, 

SON    AND    STILES 

1900 


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CHISWICK    PRESS:   CHARLES   WHITTINGHAM   AND  CO. 
TOOKS  COURT,    CHANCERY   LANE,    LONDON. 


PREFATORY    NOTE 


SMALL  CABOT  BIBLIOGRAPHY 
prepared  at  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  W.  E. 
Foster,  of  the  Providence  Public  Library,  for 
use  during  the  celebration  of  the  four  hun- 
dredth anniversary  of  John  Cabot's  visit  to 
North  America,  was  the  origin  of  the  present 
volume.  In  the  hope  of  making  that  bibliography  more 
widely  and  more  permanently  useful,  the  scope  of  the  work 
has  been  greatly  extended,  and  an  effort  has  been  made  to 
include  in  it  a  description  of  every  publication  which  has  in- 
fluenced noticeably  the  popular  or  the  scholarly  conceptions 
of  John  and  Sebastian  Cabot,  or  which  is  likely  to  prove 
useful  to  those  who  wish  to  study  the  careers  of  the  Cabots 
and  their  contemporaries. 

A  list  of  those  to  whom  the  compiler  is  indebted  for 
suggestions  and  for  assistance,  would  include  the  names 
of  nearly  every  wriier  who  took  a  part  in  the  anniversary 
discussions  of  the  Cabots'  achievements.  With  every  other 
student  of  the  period  of  discovery,  hi^  greatest  obligations 
are  to  Henry  Harrisse,  whose  researches  have  made  it  possible 
to  arrive  at  approximately  definitive  opinions  in  regard  to  the 
men  who  r'^'ealed  to  England  and  to  Europe  the  westward 
way  to  America.  The  Int.v,du6tory  Essay  tries  to  set  forth 
fully,  fairly  and  without  prejudice,  the  fadb  upon  which 
some  of  these  opinions  rre  established. 

The  printer  and  the  compiler  of  these  pages  have  been 
separated  by  the  Atlantic  Ocean  during  the  composition  of 
the  volume.     The  care  and  attention  of  the  proof-room  at 


,  ■ ') 


prctaton:  "Mote 

the  Chiswick  Press,  and  the  diligent  oversight  with  which 
Mr.  Henry  N.  Stevens  has  watched  every  detail  throughout 
the  preparation  of  the  volume,  have  saved  those  who  will 
use  this  work  from  many  anncjying  errors.  Nevertheless,  in 
a  work  of  this  description,  containing  numerous  references 
to  specific  passages  in  a  large  number  of  widely  different 
books,  it  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  many  mistakes  may 
not  have  been  detc(Sted.  The  compiler,  and  the  publishers, 
ask  for  the  indulgence  of  the  reader,  in  rcspedl  to  these 
Errata,  in  the  words  of  two  ancient  authors  quoted  below. 

Providence, 

Khode  Island. 


TO   THE   READER 

"Who faultet Knot,  liueth  not  j  who  niendtth  faults 
is  commended  :  The  Printer  hath  faulted  a  little  :  it 
may  be  the  author  oversighted  more.  Thy  paine 
(Reader)  is  the  least;  then  erre  not  thou  most  by 
misconstruing  or  sharpe  censuring;  least  thou  be 
more  vncharitable,  then  either  of  them  hath  been 
heedlesse:  God  amend  and  guide  vs  all." — Foulke 
RoBARTES,  The  Re'venue  of  the  Gospel  is  tythts. — 
Cambridge,  1613.     4.to. 

"  Reader,  Carthager.a  was  of  the  mind,  that  unto 
those  Three  Things  which  the  Ancients  held  Im- 
possible, there  should  be  added  this  Fourth,  to  Hnd 
a  Book  Printed  without  Errata  s.  It  seems,  the 
Hands  of  Briareus,  and  the  Eyes  of  Argus,  will  not 
prevent  them." — Dr.  Cotton  Mather,  Magnolia 
Christ i  Americana.     Lomlon,  \jox.     Fol. 


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CONTENTS 

PACE 

PREFATORY   NOTE 

INTRODUCTORY   ESSAY ix-Iii 

Career  of  John  Cabot x-xv 

Career  of  Sebastian  Caboi-      ....  xvi-xxxv 
La  Plata  Expedition     .    .     .  xxii-:';xii,  xlvi-xlviii 

Cabot  Controversies xxxvi-lii 

Date  of  Discovery xxxviii-xl 

Location  of  Landfall xiii-xiv,  xl-xlii 

Cabot  Map  of  1 544 xlix-1,  13-26 

CABOT  BIBLIOGRAPHY i-iSo 

Sources  of  Information '-103 

Cabotian/v,  Secondary  Writings   .     .     .  104-180 


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INTRODUCTORY   ESSAY 


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THE  CAREERS  OF  THE  CABOTS. 


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HE  commercial,  social,  and  intelledual 
life  of  fifteenth-century  Europe  centred 
in  Venice.  The  Venetian  merchants 
sent  their  fleets  of  galleys  to  every  port 
in  what  was  then  the  world  of  European  civilization, 
and  everywhere  they  controlled  that  best  of  mono- 
polies which  belongs  to  the  largest  dealer  and  the 
soundest  credit.  Genoa  had  rivalled  Venice  in  every 
field  during  the  preceding  century,  when  the  intro- 
spefltion  of  the  mediaeval  mind  was  giving  place  to 
ideas  of  a  larger  world  and  a  broader  humanity  than 
could  be  seen  and  known  in  any  single  city.  Genoa, 
facing  the  wrong  end  of  the  Mediterranean,  did  its 
full  share  of  the  work  of  opening  the  trade  routes 
of  the  Middle  Ages,  and  in  establishing  commercial 
intercourse  upon  a  peaceful,  regular  basis.  But  gradu- 
ally Venice  gained  the  leading  position,  and  therefore 
we  now  hear  very  little  of  the  youth  and  glory  of  the 


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rival  city  in  which  were  born  and  on  whose  bottoms 
were  bred  the  men  who  did  more  than  the  sons  of 
any  other  city  to  open  up  the  unknown  woild. 
England,  meantime,  was  beginning  to  take  a  hand  in 
the  affairs  of  Europe,  very  much  as  the  full-blooded, 
clear-headed  country  lad  enters  into  the  life  of  the 
metropolitan  cousins  who  offer  him  a  place  in  their 
city  office.  All  over  Europe  men's  hands  and  brains 
were  filled  with  the  new  learning,  the  new  ideas,  the 
new  things  to  do,  which  the  Renaissance  brought  out 
of  the  infinite  into  the  real  and  the  praftical.  Beyond 
Europe,  to  the  south,  lay  Africa,  along  whose  western 
shores  the  sailors  of  Prince  Henry  of  Portugal  were 
slowly  and  persistently  feeling  their  way.  To  the 
east  lay  the  far  distant  somewhere  where  grandeur 
and  wealth  had  been  seen  by  Marco  Polo.  Nearer, 
and  blocking  the  way  thither,  the  Turk  had  settled 
down  to  enforce  his  laws  which  permitted  no  dealings 
with  the  infidel  Christians.  To  the  north  and  the 
west  of  Europe  rolled  the  black  waters,  out  of  which 
now  and  again  came  some  storm-tossed,  heaven-pro- 
te<5ted  mariner  returning  with  tales  of  distant  island- 
havens  of  refuge  and  of  promise. 

A  crew  of  English  sailors  in  the  closing  years  of 
the  fifteenth  century  announced  to  Europe  their  dis- 
covery of  a  new  land  beyond  the  North  Atlantic 
waters.  To  their  leader  England  is  indebted  for  her 
proud  claim  to  priority  in  the  revelation  to  the 
Christian  world  of  the  fairest  inheritance  of  the 
British  race.     He  was  a  son  of  Genoa,  where  he  was 


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born  before  the  middle  of  the  century  ;  at  Venice  he 
received  his  inspiration  to  maritime  ambitions;  in 
England  he  found  the  co-operation  and  the  support 
which  made  his  great  achievement  possible. 

John  Cabot,  this  English  discoverer  of  America, 
lived  and  did  his  work  apparently  without  a  thought 
of  the  interest  future  generations  might  have  in  him 
and  his  career.  Of  his  chara<5ler  and  personality 
nothing  whatever  is  now  known.  Scarcely  more  can 
be  found  out  about  his  life  before  and  after  the 
voyage  which  showed  Englishmen  the  way  to  North 
America.  In  the  year  1476  Zuan  Caboto,  as  he  was  (538) 
called,  had  been  a  recorded  resident  of  Venice  for 
fifteen  years,  and  in  consideration  of  this  probation  he  (224) 
was  admitted  to  citizenship  in  the  Republic.  At  one 
time  he  travelled  to  the  marts  of  Mecca,  where  he 
talked  with  men  who  told  him  of  trafficking  at  other 
markets  far  away  towards  the  north-east,  where  they 
traded  with  merchants  who  came  from  yet  a  further 
east.  At  another  time  he  visited  Lisbon  and  the 
cities  of  Spain,  where,  or  elsewhere,  he  came  in  con- 
tad  with  ideas  and  suggestions  which  were  the 
common  property  of  the  travelling,  thinking  men  of 
his  time — ideas  about  the  shape  of  the  world  and 
suggestions  as  to  its  remotest  charaderistics.  Eventu- 
ally he  went  to  England,  and  there  he  settled  down 
to  follow  the  trade  of  merchandising  in  London  and  (213) 
Bristol. 

The  trading  voyage  to  Iceland  very  early  became  (238) 
a  part  of  the  yearly  routine  of  the  Bristol  sailors  and  (420) 


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(301)  merchant  venturers.     Tne  settles  about  the  Bristol 

(419)  firesides  to  which  Cabot  was  welcomed  had  long  since 
grown  familiar  with  tales  told  by  the  returning 
mariners  of  wonderful  islands  in  the  Western  ocean, 
away  from  the  tracks  of  commerce,  and  of  strange 
adventures  befallen  those  who  had  sailed  in  search  of 
these  mysterious  lands.     The  last  of  these  voyages, 

(243)  undertaken  by  one  who  was  styled  the  Master- 
Mariner  of  England,  was  a  matter  of  recent  occur- 
rence when  Cabot  went  to  Bristol.  Like  most  of  its 
predecessors,  this  voyage  had  almost  succeeded,  and 
the  listener  must  have  felt  sure,  as  he  heard  the  story, 
that  where  so  many  had  tried  there  must  be  some 
reality  to  reward  the  persistent  searcher.  Cabot, 
supplementing  and  explaining  the  theories  of  his 
Bristol  neighbours  by  what  he  had  heard  and  seen 
during  his  life  in  the  Mediterranean  lands,  can  have 
had  little  difficulty  in  persuading  the  West  Country 
merchants — ever  anxious  to  extend  and  broaden  the 
scope  of  their  aftivities — to  aid  him  in  his  projefts  for 
solving  the  mystery  of  what  lay  westward  from 
Ireland.  For  nearly  a  decade,  it  would  seem,  he 
persisted  in  his  efforts  to  find  the  land  in  that 
Western  ocean.  At  last  he  succeeded,  and  one 
morning  in  June,  1497,  less  than  a  score  of  English- 
men, with  John  Cabot  as  their  leader,  anchored  their 
craft  upon  an  unknown  coast.     A  few  weeks  later, 

(138)  on  August  10,  John  Cabot  kneeled  before  the  English 
king,  and  presented  him  with  the  discoverer's  claim  to 
a  new  world. 


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The  story  of  this  voyage,  upon  which  Englishmen 
are  accustomed  to  base  the  title  to  their  American 
empire,  may  be  told  in  few  words.  In  March,  1496, 
John  Cabot  and  his  three  sons  received  a  royal 
charter  from  King  Henry  VII.,  authorizing  them  to 
compete  but  not  to  interfere  with  Spain  and  Portugal 
in  the  search  for  heathen  lands  unknown  to  Christen- 
dom. A  year  later,  perhaps  on  the  second  day  of 
May,  1497,  a  small  vessel  which  may  have  been 
named  the  "  Mathew,"  and  which  carried  eighteen 
men,  sailed  from  Bristol  under  the  command  of  John 
Cabot.  Passing  around  the  southern  point  of  Ireland, 
Cabot  direded  his  course  towards  the  north  for  a  while, 
and  then  turned  west,  being  driven  back  and  forth  by 
the  North  Atlantic  spring  weather.  Holding  as 
closely  to  the  westward  course  as  wind  and  currents, 
sky  and  compass  would  allow,  he  kept  on  until  he 
came  to  land.  June  24, 1497,  was  probably  the  date 
on  which  he  anchored  somewhere  on  the  eastern  sea- 
coast  of  British  North  America,  between  Halifax  and 
southern  Labrador.  The  sailors  went  ashore  and  found 
a  pleasant,  fertile  land.  Felled  trees,  snares  for  game, 
and  needles  suitable  for  making  nets  showed  them 
that  the  country  was  inhabited. 

The  mission  of  the  voyage  was  accomplished  when 
land  was  discovered  westward  from  Europe.  Cabot 
had  fulfilled  his  purpose  as  soon  as  he  stepped  on 
shore.  Delay  might  involve  his  crew  in  a  hopeless 
conflift  with  outnumbering  natives.  Further  ex- 
ploration could  add  nothing  of  comparable  signific- 


(136) 

(222) 
(250) 


(319) 
(388) 

(493) 
(561) 
(183) 


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Careers  ot  tbe  Cabots 


ance  to  what  he  already  knew,  and  this  knowledge 

(190)  might  easily  be  lost  to  Europe  by  an  attempt  to 
increase  it.     These  considerations  would  have  coun- 

(183)  selled  an  immediate  return  to  England,  and  there  is 
no  reason,  in  probability  or  in  the  sources  of  infor- 
mation, why  Cabot  and  his  companions  need  have 
spent  more  than  a  few  hours  on  American  soil  during 
their  first  visit  to  the  western  continent.  The  stories 
they  told  after  their  arrival  home  which  have  been 
preserved  to  the  present  day,  suggest  only  the  shortest 
possible  delay  at  the  goal  of  their  voyage  and  a 
hurried  return  with  the  news.  If,  as  is  probable, 
they  spent  these  hours  on  Cape  Breton  Island  or 
thereabouts,  they  doubtless  saw  Newfoundland  on 
their  return,  and  coasted  eastward  alorig  its  southern 
shore  until  they  were  clear  of  Cape  Ra-'.e.  Thence 
an  easy  run  would  have  brought  them  to  Bristol,  as 
is  reported,  on  August  6,  in  ample  time  to  allow  the 
captain  to  post  to  the  court,  where  he  was  rewarded 
for  his  success  on  August  10. 

The  eight  months  that  followed  his  return  from 
the  voyage  of  1497  cover  the  only  period  of  John 
Cabot's  life  during  which  we  know  anything  about 
what  he   was   doing   and   thinking.     King  Henry 

(183)  promptly  promised  him  the  command  of  another 
expedition,  to  consist  of  several  vessels  conveying  men 
and  whatever  else  might  be  needed  for  the  settlement 
and  exploitation  of  the  new  found  land.    He  also  re- 

(139)  ceived  an  allowance  from  the  royal  exchequer,  and  pro- 
vided himself  with  all  the  habilimenls  befitting  the 


(190) 
(3  9') 


(84) 

(222) 
(138) 


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XV 


high  position  and  glorious  prospers  which  the  future 
seemed  to  hold  in  store  for  him.  He  talked  freely 
of  the  region  to  which  he  intended  to  condud  his 
followers,  and  of  his  anticipations  regarding  its  con- 
quest and  development.  His  friends  hailed  him  as 
Admiral,  and  as  the  weeks  passed  he  came  to  con- 
sider himself  as  heir-apparent  to  princf^ly  power,  with 
bishoprics  and  broad  seigniories  at  his  disposal.  Only 
the  necessary  preparations  for  departure  seemed  to 
stand  between  him  and  the  realization  of  his  visions 
of  a  new  English  empire  beyond  the  seas. 

The  royal  letters  patent  authorizing  the  impress-  (140) 
ment  of  vessels  and  their  equipment  were  dated  in 
February,  1498,  and  it  was  doubtless  Easter  or  later  (153) 
before  the  fleet  of  four  or  five  vessels  was  ready  to  (105) 
sail.    The  ships,  fully  loaded  with  merchandise  suited  (212) 
to  all  the  wants  of  heathen  markets,  probably  followed  (7) 
much  the  same  course  as  in  the  preceding  year.    Soon 
after  leaving  the  Irish  coast  they  encountered  a  storm 
which   forced   one  boat  to   put  back.     After  this,  (142) 
nothing  whatsoever  is  known  regarding  the  fate  of  the  (151) 
expedition.      It   may,   in   whole   or   in    part,   have 
reached  the  American  coast  in  safety.     Some  of  the 
members,  besides   those  who  were  driven  back   to  (142'*) 
Ireland  by  the  storm,  may  have  returned  to  Europe 
to  give  an  account  of  their  experiences.     According  (105) 
to   one    account,   apparently   written    in   the    early 
autumn  of  1498,  no  news  had  then  been  received 
from  the  voyagers.     The  same  statement  may  be 
made  with  equal  truth  in  1900. 


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■  i 


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Careers  of  tbe  Cabots 


During  the  voyage  of  1497,  the  numberless  shoals 
of  fish  through  which  Cabot's  ship  made  its  way, 

(190)  while  ofFthe  ccasL  of  the  new  found  lands,  impressed 
his  sailors  more  than  anything  else.  The  reports 
which  they  spread  abroad  after  their  return  doubtless 

(575)  induced  English  sailing-masters  to  visit  the  fishing 
grounds  now  known  as  the  Newfoundland  Banks. 

(212)  It  is  recorded  that  Bristol  merchants  also  pro- 
jedled  exploring  expeditions  to  the  :iew  world  during 
the  early  years  of  the  following  century.  These  were 
perhaps  sent  out  with  a  hope  of  learning  something 
about  the  fate  of  the  fleet  which  sailed  in  1498. 
Aside  from  this  supposition,  however,  there  is  no 
evidence  that  these  ventures,  which  were  diredly  con- 
nedled  with  Portuguese  discoveries,  were  in  any  con- 
siderable measure  a  result  of  Cabot's  first  voyage.  So 
far  as  can  be  found  out  from  the  extant  records,  it 
(88)  was  eighty  years  after  John  Cabot  made  his  successful 

(126)  voyage  before  the  English  people  took  the  first  steps 

(549)  to  utilize  the  knowledge  which  he  gave  them. 

Sebastian,  the  son  of  John  Cabot,  was  mentioned 
(136)  by  name  in  the  letters  patent  granted  by  Heury 
VII.  in  1496.  It  is  a  reasonable  assumption  from 
this  fadl  that  he  was  at  that  time  of  legal  age,  which 
makes  it  probable  that  he  was  born  while  his  father 
was  a  resident  of  Venice.  There  is  no  evidence  of 
any  value  to  suggest  that  he  did  or  that  he  did  not 
take  part  with  his  father  in  the  voyages  to  America 
(2 12)  in  1 497  and  1498.    His  name  has  been  associated  with 


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XVII 


a  western  voyage  undertaken  from  Bristol  four  or  five 
years  later,  but  there  are  no  certain  means  for  estab- 
lishing his  connexion  with  this  venture.  It  is,  how- 
ever, not  at  all  imp'  jbable  that  Sebastian  Cabot  may 
have  made  a  voyage  to  some  part  of  America  in  1501 
cc  1502. 

Sebastian  Cabot  makes  his  first  independent  appear- 
ance in  the  records  of  English  i -aritime  history  in 
1 508.  During  this,  the  last  year  of  King  Henry  VII., 
he  undertook  to  find  a  new  route  to  Cathay  across 
the  Ardlic  circle.  This  plan,  we  now  know,  was 
foredoomed  to  failure,  but  Cabot,  imbued  with  the 
earliest  notions  of  "Great  Circle"  sailing,  and  possess- 
ing no  certain  knowledge  of  the  uttermost  parts  of 
the  earth,  may  naturally  have  foreseen  no  insurmount- 
able obstacles.  He  sailed  into  the  north  until  his 
progress  was  blocked  by  bergs  and  fie'd  ice  at  about 
58°  or  60°  north  latitude.  Compelled  to  turn  back, 
he  came  upon  a  coast-line  towards  the  west,  which  he 
followed  southwards  for  some  distance,  landing  at 
one  place  where  the  July  sun  had  cleared  the  land  of 
snow.  As  he  sailed  along,  the  strongest  impression 
was  made  on  his  memory  by  the  adlions  of  the  numer- 
ous polar  bears  that  came  down  to  the  shore  to  catch 
the  fish  which  swarmed  along  the  coast  in  such 
numbers  as  adlually  to  stay  the  progress  of  his  ships. 
Returning  to  England,  Sebastian  found  that  his  royal 
patron  was  dead,  and  that  the  new  king,  Henry  VIII., 
wlio  succeeded  to  the  throne  in  April,  i  509,  cared  little 
for  maritime  discoveries. 


(216) 


(219) 


(566) 

(13) 

(73) 
(80) 

(117) 
(160) 


(192) 
(159) 


M 


''M 


1 1! 


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Careers  ot  tbe  Cabots 


(95)  The  voyage  of  1508-9  appears  to  have  been  one  of 
(216)  two  efforts  made  by  Sebastian  Cabot  to  discover  a 
(219)  north-western  passage  to  Cath*  Aere  is  no  satis- 

fa<5bory  clue  to  the  date  of  the  other  voyage,  but  the 
evidence  is  almost  sufficient  to  prove  that  it  must 
have  been  made,  and  in  all  probability  before  15 12, 
if  not  before  1 509.  On  this  voyage,  he  sailed  as  far 
as  671°  north,  according  to  his  observations.  He 
(196")  reached  this  latitude  on  June  1 1,  and  with  open  water 
ahead  there  seemed  to  be  nothing  to  prevent  the 
successful  continuance  of  the  voyage,  when  some 
difficulty  with  the  shipmaster,  combined  with  a 
mutiny  among  the  sailors,  forced  him  to  turn  back. 
(S^^)  This  is  all  that  is  at  present  known  about  this  ex- 
pedition. 

Sebastian  Cabot's  career  as  a  map-maker  began 
(14")  before  1512,  whenhe  was  employed  by  the  English 
government  in  making  charts  for  a  projeded  military 
expedition  against  France  under  Lord  Willoughby  de 
Broke.  Cabot  accompanied  this  expedition,  which 
landed  at  Pasages  in  northern  Spain  in  June,  1 5 1 2. 
His  reputation  must   have   preceded   him,  for   the 

(107)  Spanish  king  began  to  negotiate  for  the  transference 
of  his  services  from  England  to  Spain  very  soon 
after  his  arrival  on  the   Peninsula.     Cabot  visited 

(108)  Burgos,  where  he  had  an  interview  with  two  of  the 
confidential  advisers  of  King  Ferdinand,  and  in 
September  he  was  summoned  to  the  court.      His 

(109)  appointment  as  Capitan  de  Mar  in  the  Spanish 
marine  was  dated  on  Odoh^r  2.      The  next  thirty- 


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XIX 


five  years  of  Cabot's  life  were  spent  in  the  service  of 
Spain.    He  apparently  entered  this  service  with  some 
sort  of  understanding  that  he  was  to  be  given  the 
command  of  an  expedition  which  would  doubtless 
have  sailed  to  the  north-western  regions  which  he  had  (107*) 
already  visited.     In    March,    15 14,   he   visited    the  (in) 
court  for  the  purpose  of  discussing  the  plans  for  this 
voyage,  and  eighteen   months   later   Peter    Martyr  (159) 
wrote  that  it  would  probably  start  by  March,  15 16. 
The  illness  of  Ferdinand  interrupted  these  plans,  and 
the  king's  death  in  January,  1 5 1 6,  lead  to  their  definite 
abandonment.     Two  years  later,  in  February,  15 18,  (113) 
Cabot   was   appointed    Pilot-major   of   Spain,   with 
duties  which  kept  him  busy  at  Seville. 

Cabot,  remembering  his  experiences  under  the 
change  of  rulers  in  England,  must  have  felt  much 
anxiety  during  the  months  following  the  accession  of 
Charles  as  King  of  Spain.  This  feeling  of  uncertainty 
may  have  led  him  to  enter  into  communication  with  (76) 
the  English  government.  If  so,  the  negotiations 
dragged  along  slowly,  for  it  was  not  until  1521  that 
Henry  VIII.  and  Wolsey  were  ready  to  employ 
him.  The  exadt  nature  of  their  plans  is  most  uncer- 
tain, and  it  is  equally  uncertain  whether  or  not  Cabot 
was  really  the  person  by  the  name  of  Sebastian  whom 
they  intended  to  engage  as  chief  pilot.  But  it  is  quite 
clear  that  the  king  and  cardinal  made  arn.ngements 
for  sending  an  expedition  to  some  part  of  the  new 
world.  Inasmuch  as  their  objedl  appears  to  have  been 
the  acquisition  of  wealth,  it  is  probable  that  they  had 


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Carcere  of  tbe  Cabots 


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no  intention  of  sending  it  into  the  Ar6lic  regions 
which  Cabot  visited  a  dozen  years  before.  The 
(94)  scheme  included  the  equipment  of  a  fleet  by  the 
merchants  of  London  and  of  the  principal  provincial 
towns.  This  idea  did  not  meet  with  the  approval  of 
the  merchant  guilds  in  London,  and  the  Drapers' 
Company,  ading  as  spokesmen  for  the  other  liveries, 
returned  a  vigorous  protest  to  the  royal  message 
asking  for  their  co-operation  in  the  venture.  In  this 
reply  they  declared  that  the  "  certain  person  called 
Sebastian  "  who  was  to  be  the  leader  of  the  expe- 
dition was  a  foreigner,  and  that  he  knew  nothing  by 
personal  experience  of  the  regions  to  which  he  was 
expefted  to  pilot  the  ships.  These  contentions  failed 
to  convince  the  king,  and  royal  pressure  was  applied 
to  enforce  the  grudging  subscription  of  the  London 
contributions.  Nothing  more  is  heard  of  this  pro- 
posed English  eX|.<edition.     There  is  no  evidence  that 

(14  )  Sebf.stian  Cabot  was  at  this  time  called  upon  to  decide 
definitely  between  re-entering  the  English  service  and 
retaining  his  position  as  head  of  the  Spanish  Naviga- 
tion Office. 

The  growth  of  the  conception  of  patriotism,  of 
loyalty  to  one's  native  place,  as  contrasted  with  the 
idea  of  loyalty  to  employer  and  abiding  place,  fur- 
nishes a  most  suggestive  study  in  the  intelledual  de- 
velopment of  the  century  in  which  modern  Europe 
came  into  being.  This  conception  seems  to  have 
(76)  been  suggested  to  the  younger  Cabot  by  an  Italian 

(225)  priest,  a  fellow- Venetian  whom  he  met  in  England. 


^.H- 


Careers  ottbe  Cabots 


iii 


This  priest  reproached  him  with  his  many  services  to  ( 1 4**) 
other  countries  at  a  time  when  their  native  city  was 
so  much  in  need  of  help  to  resuscitate  its  commerce, 
the  only  means  by  which  it  could  hope  to  maintain  its 
already  weakened  position  in  the  European  world. 
The  idea  apparently  took  root  in  Cabot's  mind.  At 
about  the  time  when  the  proposed  English  expedition 
of  1 521  was  given  up,  the  Venetian  Council  of  Ten  (158) 
received  from  an  Italian  traveller  returning  from  Spain 
certain  propositions  which  he  said  had  been  intrusted  (226) 
to  him  by  Sebastian  Cabot.  This  message  was 
communicated  to  the  Venetian  ambassador  at  the 
Spanish  court,  who  sent  for  Cabot  and  held  several 
long  interviews  with  him,  of  which  very  circumstan- 
tial accounts  were  given  in  the  ambassador's  dispatches  (78) 
to  the  Venetian  government.  These  reports,  and 
especially  the  description  of  Cabot's  consternation  (76) 
when  he  realized  the  extent  to  which  he  had  been 
compromised  by  his  travelling  acquaintance,  show 
that  Cabot  was  not  a  very  far-sighted  traitor,  or  else, 
as  is  a  great  deal  more  likely,  that  he  had  talked  with 
his  friend  freely  and  somewhat  carelessly,  in  a  con- 
fidential vein,  about  possibilities  which  must  have 
seemed  to  him  as  he  talked,  perhaps  over  the  wine- 
cups,  very  remote.  When  he  was  suddenly  brought 
face  to  face  with  the  re,:)ults  of  his  friend's  mission, 
Cabot,  being  a  sixteenth-century  Italian,  could  hardly 
have  withdrawn  from  the  intrigue  in  which  he  had 
become  involved.  Trusting  to  the  future,  he  assured 
the  ambassador  that  everything  which  he  had  sug- 


X21I 


Careers  of  tbe  Cabots 


'»' 


If 


gested  could  be  brought  to  pass  as  desired.  Between 
them,  they  entered  into  elaborate  arrangements  by 
which  Cabot  was  to  secure  permission  to  go  to  Venice 
in  order  to  lay  his  plans  in  person  before  the  Seignory. 
He  did  not  go,  nor  did  he  apply  to  his  Spanish 
superiors  for  the  necessary  permission.  He  made 
many  protestations  of  eagerness  to  serve  his  native 
city,  but  he  explained  to  the  ambassador  that  there 
were  reasons  which  would  hinder  him  from  starting 
for  Venice  just  then.  Sebastian  Cabot  was  not  the 
first  person  to  enter  into  elaborate  schemes  for  under- 
takings which  he  had  no  intention  of  performing,  nor 
was  he  the  last  to  refrain  from  informing  his  partners 
of  the  real  reasons  why  their  schemes  came  to  nought. 
There  is  nothing  in  the  surviving  records  of  Cabot's 
intrigue  with  the  Venetian  officials  which  implies  that 
he  was  less  clever  or  less  honest  than  the  men  with 
whom  he  came  in  contadl,  or  that  his  adlions,  as  he 
would  have  carried  them  out  under  nineteenth-century 
conditions,  differed  materially  in  morality  or  in  in- 
telligence from  those  of  many  respeded  men  aftive  in 
contemporary  affairs. 

The  great  failure  of  Sebastian  Cabot's  life  came 
during  the  years  from  1 526  to  1 530.  He  sailed  from 
Spain  in  the  spring  of  1526  at  the  head  of  a  well- 
(392)  equipped  fleet,  confident  of  supplementing  the  work 
of  Magellan,  hoping  to  open  a  new  and  better  route 
to  the  Eastern  Spice  Lands,  dreaming  perhaps  of 
undiscovered  realms  of  measureless  wealth  which 
might  lie  in  the  path  of  his  vessels.     He  returned 


^j-r-^si 


Careers  of  tbe  Cabots 


XXIII 


four  years  later  with  a  broken-down  fragment  of  his 
expedition,  distrusted  r.id  discredited,  having  accom- 
plished nothing  which  seemed  to  his  contemporaries 
important  or  praiseworthy.  He  had  discovered  only 
one  thing — that  he  was  not  qualified  for  the  leader-  (182) 
ship  of  a  maritime  adventure.  His  usefulness  lay  in 
other  lines  of  adlivity.  In  those  lines  his  ability  was 
so  well  thought  of  by  the  men  who  had  the  best 
opportunities  for  intimate  knowledge  of  his  character 
and  attainments,  that  his  failure  does  not  seem  to 
have  afFeded  in  any  way  his  position  in  his  profession 
or  in  the  good  opinion  of  the  Emperor  and  his 
counsellors. 

Many  intricate  details  of  Cabot's  expedition  to  La  (10) 
Plata  in  1526  were  recorded  by  contemporary  writers,  (23) 
and  it  is  not  an  easy  task  to  reduce  these  to  a  brief  (182) 
intelligible  narrative.     From  the  time  when  he  first  (191) 
entered  the  Spanish  service,  Cabot  had  endeavoured  (204) 
to  secure  the  command  of  an  exploring  expedition  (430*) 
under  official  auspices.     One  and  another  difficulty  (443) 
prevented  the  fruition  of  his  plans,  and  so  he  doubt-  (528) 
less  welcomed  an  opportunity  of  making  a  voyage  to 
the  New  World,  even  though  the  idea  of  exploration 
was  subordinated  to  that  of  mercantile  profit.     This 
opportunity  came  in  the  form  of  a  trading  venture 
supported  by  Spanish  merchants.      The  successful 
return  of  Magellan's  "  Vittoria,"  completing  the  first 
circumnavigation  of  the  globe,  suggested  to  a  number 
of  Sevillian  merchants  that   a  voyage  to   the  Spice 
Lands  might  be  a  profitable  venture.    A  considerable  (369) 


1  . 


:h 


i  ii 


1 


XXIV 


Careers  ot  tbe  Cabots 


sum  was  subscribed  towards  the  speculation,  among 
the  partners  being  the  English  firm  represented  by 

(220)  Robert  Thorne  of  Bristol.  Cabot  was  engaged  for 
the  command,  and  while  the  negotiations  were  in  pro- 
gress he  succeeded  in  interesting  the  king,  who  agreed 
to  join  in  the  enterprise.  Charles  V.  seems  to  have 
sympathized  with  Cabot's  exploring  ambitions,  and 
(79)  one  result  of  the  royal  participation  was  that  Cabot 

(177)  apparently  received  secret  orders  or  authorization  to 
search  for  a  shorter  passage  to  the  East,  north  of  the 
Straits  of  Magellan.  The  original  partners  soon 
learned  of  these  ulterior  designs,  and  as  praflical 
business  men  they  promptly  undertook  to  supersede 
Cabot  in  the  chiof  command.  The  expedition  was 
properly  theirs,  and  their  interests  demanded  that  it 
should  be  in  charge  of  a  person  who  could  be  trusted 
to  prosecute  the  ""^oyage  to  a  profitable  outcome. 
The  king  persistently  refused  to  displace  Cabot,  and 
the  merchants  therefore  tried  to  secure  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  satisfactory  second-in-command,  with  suf- 
ficient authority  to  counteradt  the  explorer's  zeal. 
These  propositions  were  steadfastly  opposed  at  the 
court,  and  in  reply  to  them  royal  orders  were  issued 
requiring  that  all  who  sailed  on  the  expedition  should 
bind  themselves  stridly  to  obey  and  support  the  com- 
mander. The  bad  feeling  which  inevitably  resulted 
from  this  initial  lack  of  sympathy  and  cordial  co-opera- 
tion— doubtless  increased  by  Cabot's  foreign  birth  and 
breeding — go  far  to  explain  the  subsequent  course  of 
events. 


lers  soon 


Careers  of  tbe  Cabots 


XXV 


Sebastian  Cabot  sailed  from  San  Lucar  de  Barra- 
meda,  13  April,  1526,  commissioned  to  the  discovery 
of  Tarsis,  Ophir,  and  the  Eastern  Cathay.  He  went 
to  the  Cape  Verde  Islands  for  provisions,  and  then 
diredied  his  pilots  to  steer  south-west.  The  result 
was,  as  the  modern  Admiralty  charts  would  have 
shown  him,  that  his  ships  entered  the  South  Atlantic 
zone  of  calms  and  baffling  winds  at  its  widest  part. 
It  was  the  end  of  June  when,  with  stores  exhausted 
and  tempers  broken  by  weeks  of  heat  and  inactivity, 
they  came  to  land  on  the  coast  of  Brazil.  After  re- 
filling the  water-casks  and  securing  fresh  provisions 
at  Pernambuco,  the  voyage  was  resumed,  but  at  Cape 
St.  Augustin — Cape  Frio — they  ran  into  contrary 
winds,  which  foiled  every  effort  to  round  the  cape  for 
ten  or  twelve  weeks.  In  the  meantime,  while  they 
were  delayed  at  the  Portuguese  settlements  on  the 
coast,  the  sailors  heard  that  it  was  reported  that 
quantities  of  gold  and  silver  were  to  be  found  near 
the  head  waters  of  the  Rio  de  Solis,  which  was  soon 
to  receive  its  present  name  of  La  Plata,  the  silver  river. 
When,  towards  the  end  of  September,  the  vessels  at 
last  succeeded  in  passing  the  cape,  Cabot  direfted  their 
course  close  in  along  the  shore,  with  the  hope  that  he 
might  meet  European  settlers  thereabouts  who  could 
give  him  additional  definite  information  in  regard  to 
the  treasure  land.  He  continued  this  course  for  a 
month  of  storms  and  mishaps,  until  the  fleet  came  to 
the  island  of  Santa  Catalina  or  Catharina,  where  he 
decided  to  land  and  refit.     As  the  flagship  was  trying 


(67) 
(79) 
(83) 

(177) 


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(12)  to  enter  the  harbour,  she  ran  upon  a  submerged  rock, 
and  had  to  be  abandoned,  ship  and  cargo  proving 
(31)  almost  a  total  loss.  It  was  afterwards  alleged,  and 
not  denied,  that  Cabot  was  the  first  person  to  leave 
(23)  the  ship  after  she  struck  the  rock,  and  the  complete- 
ness of  the  wreck  was  ascribed  to  the  demoralization 
of  the  criw  caused  by  this  adion  on  the  part  of  their 
commander.  This  misfortune  resulted  in  a  further 
delay  of  fifteen  weeks,  while  a  new  boat  was  being 
built  to  replace  the  sunken  flagship.  On  the  island 
several  Spaniards,  who  had  been  left  behind  there  by 
earlier  expeditions,  had  established  themselves  as  per- 
manent settlers.  Two  of  these  men  had  been  with 
de  Solis  twelve  years  before  when  he  made  the  first 
European  voyage  up  La  Plata  river.  Cabot  engaged 
these  men  to  guide  him  to  those  regions  where,  they 
assured  him,  large  quantities  of  gold  and  silver  were 
to  be  found.  As  soon  as  this  arrangement  was 
(27)  announced,  implying  the  definite  abandonment  of 
(30)  the  original  objedl  of  the  voyage,  there  was  an  out- 
{26)  break  of  violent  disputes  between  the  commander 
and  the  officers  to  whom  the  Sevillian  merchants  had 
intrusted  their  interests.  It  quickly  became  evident 
that  nothing  could  be  accomplished  while  these  sub- 
ordinates were  in  a  position  to  discredit  the  authority 
of  the  commanding  officer,  hampering  all  his  adlions 
and  stirring  up  trouble  of  every  sort.  As  soon  as 
the  fleet  got  under  way  again,  therefore,  Cabot  had 
the  troublesome  individuals  arrested.  Despite  the 
fad  that   some  of  them  were   sick  with  fever,  he 


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he 


summarily  set  them  ashore,  and  sailed  away,  leaving 
them  with  a  small  supply  of  provisions  and  firearms. 
They  succeeded  in  making  friends  with  the  natives 
thereabouts,  and  eventually  found  their  way  to  the 
Portuguese  settlements  towards  the  north. 

About  the  end  of  February,  1527,  Cabot  entered 
the  estuary  of  La  Plata.  The  next  six  months  were 
spent  in  exploring  the  lower  portion  of  the  river,  and 
in  building  a  headquarters  fort  on  the  western  bank. 
Here  he  left  his  larger  vessels,  while  he  ascended  the 
stream  with  two  small  boats.  At  a  point  about  fifty  (430*) 
leagues  up  the  Parana,  he  found  a  suitable  location 
for  another  fort,  which  was  built  during  December. 
Starting  again  on  Christmas  Eve,  he  soon  found  that 
the  main  stream  came  from  the  eastward.  Inasmuch 
as  all  the  reports  agreed  that  the  land  of  gold  and 
silver  was  toward  the  west,  Cabot  turned  back  to  a 
large  tributary,  the  Paraguay,  which  flowed  from  that 
diredion.  Meantime,  time  and  temper  had  been  lost 
through  the  necessity  of  chastising  some  of  the  natives 
who  proved  themselves  unfriendly  to  his  progress. 
As  the  party  advanced  up  the  new  stream,  their  pro- 
visions began  to  fail,  and  the  unwilling  natives  could 
not  be  induced  to  assist  in  securing  additional  supplies. 
Frequent  desertions  had  also  weakened  the  force,  be- 
sides bringing  about  further  troubles  with  the  natives, 
who  were  robbed  and  otherwise  abused  by  the  rene- 
gade Spaniards.  In  the  face  of  constantly  increasing 
difficulties,  Cabot  led  his  men  forward  into  a  region 
which  showed  no  signs  of  anything  to  revive  their 


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hopes  or  to  brighten  the  dimming  prospers  of  fame 
and  fortune. 

At  last  a  few  Indians  approached  the  disheartened 
strangers,  and  offered  to  show  them  where  food  could 
be  secured.  Thirty  men  were  detailed  to  follow  these 
guides,  who  led  them  diredlly  into  an  ambush,  where 
nearly  two-thirds  of  the  party  were  killed  outright, 
and  eight  or  ten  others  seriously  wounded.  Two  or 
three  survivors  found  their  way  back  to  the  main 
party  and  told  the  story  of  the  disaster.  Realizing 
the  hopelessness  of  further  effort  Cabot  conduced 
what  was  left  of  his  force  safely  down  the  river  to 
the  fort  on  the  Parana.  Here  he  reorganized  his 
followers  while  the  men  were  regaining  their  strength 
and  spirits,  and  as  soon  as  they  were  fit  to  resume 
campaigning,  he  started  up  the  river  once  more  to 
punish  the  natives  by  whom  he  had  been  so  treacher- 
ously repulsed.  Before  he  could  accomplish  this 
purpose,  however,  messengers  from  the  lower  fort 
(ii6)  brought  him  the  news  that  Diego  Garcia  had  arrived 
(178)  in  the  river  with  an  expedition  which  had  been  sent 
out  from  Spain  for  the  purpose  of  continuing  the 
explorations  begun  in  this  region  by  de  Solis.  Cabot 
immediately  went  down  to  meet  Garcia,  with  whom 
he  had  a  long  conference,  regarding  which  both 
parties  were  afterwards  curiously  reticent.  Early  on 
the  following  morning  Garcia  proceeded  up  river, 
"  without  taking  leave  " — whatever  this  phrase  in 
Cabot's  report  may  mean — while  Cabot  withdrew  his 
entire  force  to  the  headquarters  fort  at  San  Salvador, 


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XXIX 


established  two  years  before.     Here  he  prepared  his  (22) 
official  report,  while  overseeing  the  prope."  equipment 
of  the  "  Trinidad,"  one  of  his  larger  vessels,  for  the 
voyage  to  Spain.     The  "Trinidad"  sailed  about  the  (191) 
middle  of  July,  1528,  carrying  an  urgent  application  (427) 
for  fresh  supplies  and  for  such  assistance  as  would 
enable  him  to  continue  the  explorations.    She  reached 
Lisbon  in  Odtober,  and  the  letters  were  promptly  pre-  (147) 
sented  to  the  king  and  to  the  Sevillian  merchants.    The 
latter  quickly  made  up  their  minds  to  have  nothing 
more  to  do  with  the  venture.     The  king  ordered  that 
the  necessary  relief  should  be  dispatched  without  delay 
at  the  expense  of  the  royal  treasury.     These  orders 
were  apparently  never  carried  out. 

Sebastian  Cabot  spent  the  winter  of  1528-29  at  his 
fort  at  San  Salvador,  hopefully  awaiting  the  arrival 
of  reinforcements  from  Spain.  As  time  wore  on  he 
decided  to  do  what  he  could  with  the  force  at  his 
disposal.  He  therefore  transferred  his  headquarters  to 
the  fort  ereded  at  Sanfti  Spiritus  on  the  Parana,  where 
the  natives  welcomed  him  with  every  sign  of  friend- 
liness. As  soon  as  the  men  were  settled  here,  Cabot 
went  down  the  river  to  see  that  everything  at  the 
lower  fort  had  been  left  in  proper  shape.  While  he 
was  away,  the  natives — doubtless  ading  under  provo- 
cation— suddenly  attacked  the  camp  at  San<5ti  Spiritus, 
burning  the  buildings  and  killing  most  of  the  de- 
fenders. The  survivors  escaped  to  their  boats  and 
hurried  down  stream  to  rejoin  their  leader.  Cabot  at 
once  collected  his  men,  reorganized  the  fugitives,  and 


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led  them  back  to  SandU  Spiritus.  Here  the  mangled 
bodies  of  their  fellows  were  recovered  and  buried, 
and  :uch  property  as  the  natives  had  been  unable  to 
remove  was  embarked  on  the  boats.  With  his  small, 
debilitated,  and  unnerved  force,  retaliation  was  im- 
possible, and  so  Cabot  conduded  his  men  down  to 
San  Salvador.  His  position  at  this  fort  soon  became 
untenable.  The  news  of  the  success  on  the  Parana 
spread  rapidly  among  the  natives,  who  gathered  in 
increasing  numbers  about  the  Spanish  camp,  investing 
it  so  closely  that  starvation  became  imminent.  Nearly 
thirty  of  the  white  men  were  killed  while  trying  to 
fish  or  forage  for  roots.  A  council  called  on  6  Odo- 
ber,  1529,  promptly  decided  to  return  to  Spain.  A 
month  later,  after  waiting  as  long  as  he  dared  for  a 
party  which  had  failed  to  return  from  a  trip  in  search 
of  provisions  for  the  voyage,  Cabot,  with  the  re- 
mainder of  his  companions,  sailed  out  from  La  Plata 
and  headed  for  Spain.  Garcia,  who  came  down  to 
bid  him  adieu,  lent  a  little  assistance,  and  sufficient 
supplies  were  secured  from  the  Indians  along  the 
coast  to  enable  the  voyagers  to  reach  the  Portuguese 
settlements.  After  various  adventures  along  the 
Brazilian  coast,  including  the  purchase  of  a  batch  of 
slaves — the  only  booty  Cabot  delivered  to  his  em- 
(2)  ployers  in  Seville — a  good  passage  brought  his  ship 

to  the  Guadalquivir  on  22  July,  1530. 
(10)       The  passions  and  quarrels  which  had  been  sup- 
(12)  pressed  during  the  voyage  broke  out  violently  as 
(23)  soon   as  Cabot's  authority   was    superseded  by  the 


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XXXI 


jurisdidion  of  :he  officials  who  took  charge  of  (36) 
the  vessel  upon  its  arrival  in  the  home  port.  As 
soon  as  possible  after  landing,  several  members  of  the 
expedition  took  the  necessary  legal  steps  to  prefer 
charges  against  their  commander.  For  more  than 
three  months  the  scribes  of  the  Council  for  the  Indies 
were  busied  with  drawing  up  accusations  and  lists  of 
interrogations,  and  with  recording  answers  and  deposi- 
tions. These  documents  furnish  almost  all  the  details 
that  are  now  known  regarding  the  internal  history  of 
the  expedition,  together  with  some  of  the  reasons  for 
its  failure.  The  hearings  dragged  on  for  a  year  and 
a  half  before  all  the  appeals  had  been  decided.  Cabot 
was  eventually  adjudged  guilty  of  maladministration 
and  of  disobedience  of  his  official  instrudions,  result- 
ing in  the  death  of  certain  of  his  followers.  He  was, 
therefore,  muldled  in  heavy  fines,  to  be  paid  to  the  (67*) 
reliifts  of  the  sufferers,  and  was  sentenced,  i  February,  (37) 
1532,  to  banishment  for  two  years,  or  perhaps  for 
four,  to  the  Spanish  military  colony  at  Oran  in 
Morocco.  Cabot  had  *.n  the  meantime  resumed  the 
exercise  of  his  duties  as  Pilot-major  of  Spain,  and 
despite  the  judgment  against  him  there  is  no  evidence 
that  he  did  not  continue  undisturbed  in  this  office. 
His  salary  was  stopped  for  the  payment  of  the  fines,  (67*) 
but  in  lieu  thereof  he  received  allowances  froiix  'me 
to  time  by  special  royal  bounty.  Domestic  troubles  (38) 
were  aggravated  by  attacks  upon  the  administration 
of  his  office,  but  there  is  nothing  to  show  that  either 
interfered   with  the   successful   prosecution    of   his 


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(173) 
(69) 

(348) 


(231) 


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(99) 
(4) 

(S3S) 


career.  In  the  spring  of  1533  he  was  engaged  in 
construding  a  planisphere  for  the  Council  of  the 
Indies.  During  the  succeeding  ten  years  very  little  is 
heard  of  him.  In  1544  and  1545  he  was  still  afting 
as  the  official  head  of  the  pilots  of  Spain. 

The  Spanish  historians,  cognizant  of  their  national 
charaderistics,  have  been  the  first  to  suggest  the  pro- 
bability that  Sebastian  Cabot,  a  foreigner  in  high 
position,  found  his  work  made  difficult  by  a  lack  of 
confidence  and  co-operation  on  the  part  of  his  Spanish 
associates  and  subordinates.  It  may  have  been  some 
unusually  irritadng  exhibition  of  this  feeling  of 
jealousy  which  induced  him,  in  1538,  to  suggest  to 
the  English  ambassador  in  Spain  that  he  was  ready  to 
re-enter  the  English  service  provided  he  could  do  so 
to  his  personal  advantage.  It  is  barely  possible  that 
he  went  to  England  three  years  later,  and  spent  some 
time  there  in  an  efFct  to  come  to  terms  with  King 
Henry  "^'^III.  for  an  expedition  to  the  Ardic  regions. 
This,  however,  is  entirely  a  matter  of  conjedlure.  It 
is  not  made  less  possible  by  the  fad  that,  in  1548, 
Cabot  transferred  his  person  and  his  services  to  the 
English  crown.  The  councillors  of  King  Edward 
VI.  granted  him  a  pension  or  salary,  and  it  is  pre- 
sumed that  in  return  for  this  he  exercised  tiie  fundions 
of  adviser  in  maritime  affairs  to  the  Admiralty  Office 
of  that  day.  He  established  his  home,  apparently, 
once  more  in  Bristol,  and  passed  the  last  decade  of 
his  life  without  again  leaving  England. 

Cabot's  return  to   England  was  presumably  the 


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XXXlll 


result  of  negotiations  carried  on  while  he  was  in  the 
full  enjoyment  of  his  position  as  Pilot-major  of  Spain. 
It  is  clear  that  Charles  V.  received  no  notice  of  any 
intention  on  Cabot's  part  to  desert  the  Spanish  ser- 
vice permanently.     In  1549,  and  again  in  1553  after  (71) 
the  accession  of  his  prospe(5live  daughter-in-law.  Queen  (74) 
Maiy,  the  Emperor  urged  upon  the  English  govern-  (102) 
ment  his  claims  to  the  services  of  Cabot.     He  also 
tried  to  persuade  his  former  servant  to  return  by 
persona!   solicitation,   but   without    success.      Cabot 
avoided  a  dired:  refusal,  and  the  charadteristic  letter  (59) 
which  he  wrote  in  reply  to  the  overtures  made  in 
1553  seems  to  reveal  an  instindive  desire  to  maintain  (72) 
his  relations  with  everyone  whose  assistance  or  patron- 
age might  by  any  change  of  fortune  become  useful  to 
him. 

Although  Cabot  gave  the  most  definite  expression 
of  his  determination  never  to  leave  England  for  Spain, 
he  apparently  reopened  the  negotiations  with  Venice  (228) 
which  had  come  to  nought  twenty-five  years  before. 
As  before,  the  business  was  ostensibly  connedted  with 
his  claims  to  property  which  came  to  him  from  his 
mother,  and  the  success  with  which  this  claim  was 
urged  upon  the  Spanish  and  now  upon  the  English 
representatives  in  Venice  gives  some  reason  for  sup-  (223) 
posing  that  it  had  a  foundation  in  fad.  As  before, 
also,  the  reports  of  the  affair  are  inextricably  confused 
with  propositions  looking  toward  the  maritime  rejuve- 
nation of  Venice.  It  is  not  impossible,  in  these  very 
dubious  proceedings,  that  Cabot's  desire  to  desert  his 


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employers  may  have  held  no  larger  place  in  his  mind 
than  an  equally  ardent  desire  to  enlist  the  Venetian 
officials  in  the  task  of  recovering  his  inheritance. 

There  are  few  records  to  show  what  Sebastian  Cabot 
did  in  England,  except  those  which  prove  that  he 
drew  his  salary  regularly,  until  the  spring  of  1553, 
when  he  became  Governor  of  the  Merchants  Adven- 
turers. There  can  be  little  doubt  that  he  had  pre- 
viously participated  in  the  affairs  of  the  Company, 
especially  in  the  conflidt  with  its  Easterling  rivals  of 
the  Steelyard  in  1551.  He  must  also  have  taken  a 
very  adive  part  in  the  work  of  getting  ready  for  the 
sailing,  on  20  May,  1553,  of  the  vessels  commanded 
by  Willoughby  and  Chancellor.  Cabot  drew  up  the 
instructions  for  their  voyage,  taking  as  a  model  the 
regulations  given  to  Spanish  navigators  and  explorers 
while  he  was  connedled  with  that  department  of  the 
Spanish  service.  This  voyage  to  the  north-east  under 
Chancellor  was  really  the  beginning  of  successful, 
consecutive  English  maritime  expansion,  and  from  his 
share  in  it  has  very  justly  been  derived  Cabot's  claim 
to  a  place  among  the  Builders  of  Greater  Britain. 
Chancellor  returned  to  England  in  due  se^'son,  having 
established  friendly  relations  with  the  court  and  the 
northern  trading  centres  of  Russia.  After  waiting 
two  years  for  the  return  of  Willoughby,  who  had 
s  ^iurated  from  his  consort  soon  after  their  voyage 
began,  a  search  expedition  was  sent  out  in  the  spring 
of  1 556  under  Stephen  Burrough.  Cabot  was  adlively 
interested  in  the  preparations  for  this  voyage.     He 


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attended  all  the  ceremonits  connected  with  the  depart- 
ure of  Burrough's  vessel,  and  the  delightful  descrip-  ( i  8) 
tion  of  his  parting  blessing  to  the  mariners  affords  the 
last  full  view — and  indeed  the  only  one — of  the  old 
cartographer  and  cosmographer.     Not  long  after  this, 
Richard  Eden  attended  him  upon  his  deathbed.     In  (97) 
the  late  autumn  of  1557  Sebastian  Cabot  received  his  (169) 
pension  for  the  last  time,  and  started  off  to  the  un- 
known region   which   each  man   must   discover  for 
himself,  where  the  prejudices,  the  jealousies,  and  the  (,39^) 
ignorances  of  contemporaries  and  of  historians  alike 
give  place  to  the  eternal  record  of  things  as  they  are. 


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CABOT   CONTROVERSIES. 

;HE  careers  of  the  Cabots,  as  they  have  been 
described  on  the  preceding  pages,  differ 
in  many  essential  respedls  from  the  pre- 
vailing notions  in  regard  to  the  events 
and  the  men  that  have  figured  in  the  narrative.  It 
would  be  unwise  to  claim  that  the  present  effort  has 
been  more  successful  than  others — that  it  is  a  truer 
or  more  accurate  account  of  what  was  adlually  done 
by  John  and  Sebastian  Cabot  between  1460  and  1560. 
It  may,  however,  be  safely  stated  that  this  narrative 
has  been  written  with  a  most  earnest  desire  to  make 
it  fair  to  human  nature  and  true  to  the  fa6ls  of 
history.  It  is  based  upon  one  fundamental  considera- 
tion— one  which  does  not  seem  to  have  appealed 
strongly  to  many  who  have  previously  written  about 
this  suljedl — a  conception  of  Sebastian  Cabot  as  an 
historical  personage,  not  dissimilar  in  the  abstradl  or 
in  the  concrete  from  other  men  of  the  past  and  the 
present. 

There  are  few  statements  on  the  preceding  pages 


f 


K<Uk'.Ua5«^~  a^-i 


^->6     —  -    „-    -      _ 


Cabot  Controversies 


XXXVll 


which  have  not  been  controverted  diredly  or  by 
implication  by  other  writers  who  have  studied  the  (457) 
history  of  the  Cabots.  In  the  paragraphs  which  (473) 
follow,  an  outline  is  given  of  the  points  in  dispute  in 
the  more  important  Cabot  controversies.  These 
brief  statements  are  not  written  for  the  purpose  of 
justifying  the  preceding  narrative.  They  are  designed 
to  furnish  a  sufficient  guide  to  the  more  important 
matters  noted  in  connexion  with  the  books  and  essays 
described  in  the  second  part  of  the  ensuing  Biblio- 
graphy, and  to  provide  a  convenient  means  of  refer- 
ence to  the  works  which  discuss  the  various  subjefts 
from  different  points  of  view.  The  notes  under  the 
titles  in  the  Bibliography  aim  to  state  as  clearly  as 
possible  in  brief  compass  the  more  plausible  conten- 
tions of  the  several  advocates.  Each  of  the  follow- 
ing paragraphs  ought,  in  addition  to  the  references 
given  therewith,  to  refer  to  the  pages  of  Mr.  Henry 
Harrisse's  works,  especially  to  the  volume  described  as 
No.  387.  An  intelligent  examination  of  the  text  of 
that  volume  will  materially  help  the  reader  to  under- 
stand the  comments  and  the  opinions  set  forth  in  this 
present  essay. 


;.-! 


'*€ 


W        >       ,: 


it' 


John  Cabot's  Birthplace  has  been  a  subjedl  for 
controversy  between  the  advocates  of  Venice  and  (458) 
Genoa  for  more  than  a  century.  The  Venetians,  (461) 
especially  those  who  claimed  that  Cabot  was  born  in  (290) 
Chioggia,  or  in  some  other  outlying  suburb  oi  the  (335) 
Adriatic  city,  seemed  to  have  much  the  best  of  the  (460) 


XXXVllI 


dabot  Controversies 


(224) 

(387) 

(7) 

(119) 


(190) 


(496) 


argument,  even  after  the  discovery  of  the  document 
which  proves  that  Cabot  was  admitted  as  a  stranger 
to  Venetian  citizenship,  until  1896,  when  Mr. 
Harrisse  showed  conclusively  that  the  contem- 
poraries of  Cabot  who  knew  him  most  familiarly, 
regularly  spoke  and  wrote  of  him  as  a  Genoese  by 
birth.  The  suggestion,  based  upon  a  variant  of  the 
name,  that  Castiglione  near  Genoa  was  the  place  of 
Cabot's  birth  and  boyhood's  friends,  induding  the 
one  who  afterwards  became  his  barber  or  surgeon,  is 
chiefly  interesting  because  it  has  not  yet  been  dis- 
credited by  the  advocates  of  other  localities. 


The  Danish  Mission  undertaken  by  John  Cabot 
(236)  for  the  purpose  of  arranging  some  matters  which 
(473)  were   in   dispute   between   the   king   or    people   of 
(490)  Denmark  and  the  shipping  merchants  of  Bristol  and 
other  English  ports  is  neither  impossible  nor  unlikely. 
The  evidence  upon  which  the  accounts  of  this  mission 
are  based,  however,  is  not  of  the  slightest  historical 
value.     Nothing  has  been  found  among  the  fifteenth- 
century   archives    in   England   or  Denmark   which 
furnishes  any  confirmation  of  the  story  that  Cabot 
was  employed  upon  such  a  mission. 

The  Date  of   the  Discovery  is  no  longer  a 

(388)  subjed  of  more   than   academic   interest.     Richard 

(128)  Hakluyt    in    1589    stated    that   Cabot    discovered 

(131)   Bacallaos  in  1494  ;  ten  years  later  he  changed  this 

date  to  1497.     For  250  years  the  principal  authority 


■1  I 


Cabot  Controversies 


XXXIX 


which  persuaded  Hakluyt  to  make  this  change  could 
not  be  found  by  historical  investigators,  and  when  it 
was  finally  recovered  in  1843,  it  seemed  to  prove  (39) 
that  the  corred:  date  was  1494.  None  the  less, 
despite  the  fad:  that  students  are  still  obliged  to  rely 
largely  upon  inference  for  an  explanation  of  the  pre-  (55*) 
cise  reasons  which  induced  Hakluyt  to  make  the 
correftion,  they  are  very  generally  agreed  that  the 
discovery  was  njade  in  the  year  1497.  The  fadt  that 
the  1544  Cabot  map  recovered  in  1843  gives  the  date 
as  1494,  apparently  upon  the  authority  of  Sebastian 
Cabot,  is  explained  by  an  assumption  that  the  date  on 
that  map  is  misprinted.  This  recognition  by  con- 
servative Cabotian  students  that  misprints  occur  and 
must  be  taken  into  account  in  historical  investigations, 
has  made  it  possible  for  an  Italian  scholar  to  argue 
with  much  earnestness  that  the  date  1497  is  in  its 
turn  a  misprint,  or  a  copy  of  a  misprint,  in  every  case 
where  it  appears  in  Cabotian  literature. 

The  various  sources  of  information  which  were  lost 
sight  of  between  the  sixteenth  and  the  nineteenth  cen- 
turies were  not  absolutely  necessary  for  the  prepara- 
tion of  a  clear  and  accurate  statement  of  the  adtual  (292) 
fads  in  regard  to  the  date  of  John  Cabot's  discovery. 
Unluckily,  such  a  statement  was  prepared  and  pub- 
lished for  the  first  time  in  connexion  with  an  inter- 
national diplomatic  negotiation.  This  led  to  the 
preparation  of  a  controversial  reply  which  so  success- 
fully utilized  all  the  resources  of  fallacious  logic 
and  of  sophistical  reasoning  as  applied  to  historical 

d 


(446) 


(539) 


^   Air, 


Vi4 


Hi 


xl 


Cabot  Controversies 


(457) 


! 


(39) 

(55^) 

(15) 

(183) 
(190) 

(7) 
(219) 


t               (319) 

'^                       (393) 

(453) 

(426) 

'                       (170) 

(413) 

i                        (491) 

(496) 

(573) 

evidence  that  for  more  than  a  century  the  fails  which 
had  been  corredtly  set  forth  in  1755  were  not  again 
accurately  understood  by  any  of  the  men  who  honestly 
endeavoured  to  discover  their  meaning. 

The  recovery  of  the  1544  Cabot  map  in  i843 
brought  to  light  a  clear  and  authoritative  statement 
that  the  discovery  was  made  in  1494.  No  sufficient 
reasons  for  doubting  the  correctness  of  this  date 
existed  until  documents  were  found  in  the  Venetian 
archives,  ten  years  later,  which  prove  conclusively 
that  the  discovery  was  adlually  made  in  the  year 
1497.  The  same  documents  state  that  a  second  ex- 
pedition started  for  America  in  1498,  and  also  that 
Bristol  mariners  had  apparently  been  making  tenta- 
tive voyages  into  the  Atlantic  under  Cabot's  diredlion 
during  several  years  preceding  1497.  These  records 
render  it  difficult  to  deny  with  any  confidence  the  con- 
tention of  those  who  maintain,  however  erroneously, 
that  something  was  discovered  in  1494  which  assured 
success  to  the  venture  of  1497. 

The  Location  of  the  Landfall  has  been  the 
subject  of  an  an  mated  controversy  which  has  obscured 
almost  every  other  aspedl  of  the  discovery  during  the 
past  twenty  years.  The  fad:  that  the  Newfoundland 
coast  is  usually  the  first  land  sighted  by  sailing  vessels 
coming  from  Europe  to  the  North  American  seaports 
seems  at  first  to  make  this  the  most  probable  location  for 
the  Cabot  landfall.  It  is  likely,  however,  that  Cabot 
endeavoured  to  sail  westward  from  Ireland.     Such  a 


t  I.  "  1 


,.'\ 


Cabot  Controversies 


xli 


course   would   have   taken   him,   if  he  passed   the  {332^) 
southern  point  of  Greenland,  on  to  the   Labrador  (417) 
coast.     Labrador,   therefore,  would   unquestionably  (473) 
have  been  accepted  by  historians  as  the  place  for  the 
Cabot  landfall,  if  John  Cabot's  descriptions  of  the 
country  which  he  visited  had  never  been  recovered. 
These  descriptions  establish  beyond  reasonable  doubt 
that  the  country  to  which  they  refer  cannot  have  been 
as  far  north  as  Labrador.     This  conclusion  is  in  con-  (174) 
fli(5t  with  the  evidence  of  the  maps,  which  describe  (157) 
the  most  northern  portion  of  the  American  continent  (198) 
as  the  region  discovered  by  Enghshmen.    This  carto-  (201") 
graphical   evidence  may   be   disregarded    the   more  (218) 
easily  if,  as  seems  probable,  all  of  these  maps  were  (229) 
drawn    after   the   date  of  another    English   voyage 
commanded  by  a  Cabot,  which  attained  to  the  north- 
western limit  of  navigation. 

Cape   Breton   is   distindly   marked   on   the   1544  (316) 
Cabot  map  as  the  place  where  Cabot  made  his  first  (jio) 
landfall,  and  there  is  strong  confirmatory  evidence  to  (470*^) 
support  the  corredness  of  this  location.  (507) 


'J  <^ 


■!    '$■ 


Mathematical  Demonstrations  have  been  in- 
dulged in  most  elaborately  by  some  of  the  advocates  (389) 
of  theories,  but  this  sort  of  argument  does  not  possess  (393) 
the   slightest  value  for  historical   purposes,  because  (303) 
there  is  absolutely  nothing  upon  which  to  establish 
the  premises.     Not    knowing   any    of  the    primary 
fadors  of  the  problem,  it  is  not  possible  to  apply  to 
its  elucidation  any  of  the  rules  of  an  exacft  science. 


xlii 


Cabot  Controversies 


u 


I'll  ('/, 


V 


(318)  There  is  a  real  value  in  the  suggestion  that  Cabot 
may  have  been  drawn  toward  the  south-west  by  the 
variation  between  the  magnetic  and  the  geographical 
poles.  This  point,  together  with  the  reminder  that 
the  prevailing  climatic  and  oceanic  conditions  of 
winds,  tides,  and  currents  must  be  taken  into  account, 
is  interesting  as  showing  how  many  fadors  need  to  be 
considered  by  a  careful  student  of  history.  Each  of 
these  faftors  carries  in  its  train  the  possibility  of  ex- 
ceptional conditions,  peculiar  to  any  single  day  or 
season,  which  may  as  easily  have  altered  the  whole 
course  of  a  voyage  it   1 497  as  at  any  other  time. 

The  Voyage  of   1498   '.as  been  the  subjed   of 

(146')  almost   as   many   different   narratives   as   there   are 

(238)  recent  books  about  the  Cabots.     The  proof  that  this 

(303)  voyage  was  contemplated  is  ample;  there  is  sufficient 

(395)  evidence  that  the  vessels  sailea  from  England;  but 

(473)  there  is  not  a  single  unquestionable  record  of  its  fate 

after  it  left  the  Irish  coast.     There  are  a  number  of 

accounts  of  undated  Cabot  voyages  in  the  sixteenth- 

centur)'  books.     It  was  supposed  that  these  described 

the  voyage  of  1494  or   1497  until  fifty  years  ago, 

when  the  accounts  of  what  adlually  took  place  in  the 

latter  year  were  found  at  Venice.     Thereupon  the 

undated  accounts  were  all  fitted  on  to  the  voyage  of 

1498.     The  hopeless  confusion  which  resulted  may 

perhaps  be  untangled  by  applying  certain  of  these 

narratives  to  a  voyage  made  in  1508. 

John  Cabot  died:  how,  when,  or  where  is  not 


Cabot  Controversies 


Xllll 


t  Cabot 
It  by  the 
;raphical 
der  that 
tions  of 
account, 
sd  to  be 
Each  of 
y  of  ex- 
day  or 
e  whole 
me. 

bjedt   of 
ere    are 
:hat  this 
ufficient 
tid;   but 
its  fate 
nber  of 
cteenth- 
iscribed 
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Rge  of 
;d  may 
f  these 


IS  not 


known.  His  pension  was  paid  from  the  royal  treasury 
in  1499;  if  John  Cabot  drew  it  in  person,  he  must 
have  returned  from  the  voyage  of  1498.  The 
assumption  that  he  did  so,  however,  is  the  merest 
conjedure. 

Sebastian  Cabot  was  born,  in  all  probabihty, 
while  his  father  was  a  resident  of  Venice.  Sebastian 
claimed  Venice  as  his  birthplace,  but  as  he  is  also 
reported  to  have  said  that  he  was  born  in  Bristol, 
England,  it  is  not  possible  to  place  any  strong  reliance 
upon  his  testimony.  His  mother  was  a  Venetian, 
and  it  may  perhaps  be  a  legitimate  inference  from  his 
repeated  efforts  to  make  good  his  claims  to  property 
inherited  from  her  that  her  family  had  some  standing 
In  the  city.  Sebastian  was  a  very  old  man  in  1555, 
and  as  he  was  probably  more  than  twenty-one  years 
of  age  in  1496,  it  is  quite  likely  that  he  was  born 
before  1475. 


395) 
15O 
339) 
14a) 


188) 

194) 

306) 

96) 

308) 

183) 

438) 
500) 

439) 
498) 

97) 

136) 

458) 


Sebastian's  Participation  in  the  Voyages  of  (469) 
1497  ^^^  1498  is  a  matter  of  absolute  uncertainty. 
The  probabilities — to  hazard  a  personal  opinion — are 
that  he  was  not  one  of  the  eighteen  persons  who 
accompanied  his  father  In  1497.  There  is  no  reason 
to  suppose  that  anyone  who  sailed  in  the  following 
year  ever  returned,  with  *'he  exception  of  those  who 
were  on  the  ship  which  was  driven  back  to  the  Irish 
coast.  In  1 502-3  Sebastian's  name  is  associated  with 
the  presentation  of  some  natives  of  America  at  the  (212) 


I  '  J:' 


:'(i'l 


<)h 


xHv 


Cabot  Controversies 


h  1  ! 


English  court.  It  seems  to  be  a  reasonable  supposi- 
tion that  these  natives  were  not  in  any  way  connedted 
with  any  of  John  Cabot's  voyages,  but  that  they  were 
brought  to  England  by  an  expedition  which  was  fitted 
(219)  out  by  the  Bristol  merchants  Thorne  and  Eliot. 
Sebastian  Cabot  may  have  taken  part  in  this  voyage, 
regarding  the  details  of  which  nothing  is  known. 

An  Arctic  Voyage  in  1508-9  apparently  sailed 
under  the  command  of  Sebastian  Cabot.    This  voyage 

(159)  ^^^  described  by  Peter  Martyr  in  1516  and  1524, 

(160)  and  with  more  detrils  by  Contarini  in  1536.  These 
(80)  accounts  early  became  confused  with  the  records  of 

(217)  John  Cabot's  voyage  of  discovery,  and  only  recently 
(48)  has  the  confusion  been  sufficiently  disentangled  to 

(^66)  permit  such  a  rearrangement  of  these  sources  of  trust- 
(96)  worthy  information  as  will  reveal  their  proper  relation 

(533)  to  each  other  and  to  the  fads  of  history. 


ho'l 
Cal 


ah 


J  i  ■'! 


(128) 
(221) 

(95) 
(520) 


(387) 


:^:i/ 


The  Voyage  wi'^'h  Pert  or  Spert  in  15 17  has 
been  a  subjed  of  much  perplexity.  The  date  rests 
solely  on  an  assumed  play  upon  words  by  Richard 
Eden.  Inasmuch  as  no  other  reference  to  the  voyage 
has  been  found,  it  is  suggested  that  the  vessels  may 
not  have  sailed,  but  that  some  sort  of  an  expedition 
may  have  been  contemplated  at  about  this  time. 
Sebastian  did  not  visit  England  in  15 17,  and  Mr. 
Harrisse  has  arranged  evidence  to  prove  that  Spert 
was  in  England  throughout  this  year,  and  could  not 
have  been  absent  on  any  distant  voyage.     There  is, 


fV'l 


II 


Cabot  Controversies 


dv 


however,  nothing  to  show  that  he  may  not  have 
engaged,  or  talked  of  engaging,  on  a  voyage  with 
Cabot  in  some  other  year  between  1509  and  1522. 

The   proposed  English   Expedition  of   1521 
almost  certainly  did  not  sail,  although  the  plans  and  (94) 
preparations  for  a  considerable  expedition  seem  to  (408) 
have  been  very  nearly  completed  in  that  year.    Informa-  (5^6) 
tion  in  regard  to  this  venture  is  for  the  present  limited 
to  a  single  document  of  a  strongly  partisan  charadler, 
which  has  been  interpreted  by  modern  writers  in  a 
spirit  of  equal  partisanship. 

Interest  in  the  venture  itself  has  been  subordinated 
to  an  effort  to  prove  that  the  evidence  of  this  docu- 
ment completely  destroys  the  good  charadler  of  "  a 
certain  Sebastian"  who  was  to  have  the  charge  of  this 
voyage,  which  certain  London  merchants  wished  to 
prevent.  The  avowedly  prejudiced  charadler  of  the 
document,  and  of  the  use  which  has  been  made  of  it 
by  the  professed  detradlor  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  renders 
serious  detailed  discussion  of  it  difficult,  and  perhaps 
unnecessary.  The  document  clearly  animadverts 
strongly  against  one  Sebastian  :  there  is  no  reason  to 
suppose  that  all  of  its  statements  are  necessarily  true, 
especially  in  view  of  the  faft  that  the  person  against 
whom  they  were  presumably  diredled  was  in  all 
probability  not  in  England  at  the  time  to  challenge  (14'') 
them.  Many  of  these  statements,  moreover,  may 
have  been  true  in  substance,  but  they  are  certainly 
not    true  in   the  sense   in   which   they   have   been 


V] 


I! 


'I. 
i' 


j  ^U 


f  *^. 


't '(  1 


t  <i 


f1 


S?'. 


xlvi 


Cabot  Controrersicp 


interpreted.  The  Londoners  were  opposing  a  royal 
scheme — to  which  the  Bristol  merchants  had  already 
given  their  loyal  support.  Among  other  things  the 
obje<5lors  declared  that  Sebastian  was  not  an  English- 
man, and  that  he,  who  is  not  known  to  have  claimed 
that  he  had  ever  sailed  anywhere  except  to  the  Ardlic 
seas,  was  not  familiar  with  the  localities  which  the  King 
and  Wolsey  desired  to  exploit.  It  is  hard  to  see 
wherein  these  declarations  blast  Cabot's  reputation. 

The   Expedition   to    La   Plata  in   1526  was 
confessedly  a  failure.     As  such  it  has  not,  nor  is  it 
(143)  likely  to  become  a  subjedt  of  controversy.     There 
(392)  is   little  use  in  Si-guing  over  the  share  of  personal 
(443)  responsibility  for  the  failure  which  attaches  to  Sebastian 
(430)  Cabot.     There  are  usually  tv/o  sides  to  every  question, 
(220)  and  if  one  reads  the  numerous  records  of  this  expedi- 
tion with  a  little  care,  it  becomes  evident  that  the 
commander  was  persistently  and  designedly  bothered 
and   hampered   and   interfered  with   at   every  step. 
Neither  is  there  anything  to  be  gained  by  arguing 
with  those  who  ignore  the  fad  that  the  winds  and 
(133")  currents  of  the  Atlantic  were  not  charted  and  averaged 
in  1525.     Many  things  were  known  then,  by  a  sort 
of  nautical   instind,  among  pradical  seamen,  which 
Cabot  did  not  heed.     Sebastian  Cabot's  lot  throughout 
his  life  seems  to  have  been  to  find  out  the  things 
which  other  men  need  not  and  ought  not  to  do.     He 
had  proven  that  the  Ardic  seas  were  not  navigable. 
He  proved  that  gold  mines  do  not  flourish  on  the 


bar 
we* 


; 


.^> 


Cabot  Controrersies 


xlvii 


banks  of  the  Parana.     And  the  people  of  his  time  (430*) 
were  satisfied  with  the  proof. 

The  task  which  Cabot  undertook  in  1526  was 
obviously  one  for  which  he  was  unfitted.  It  was  clearly  (182) 
far  beyond  his  powers.  But  it  is  not  on  this  account 
equally  obvious  that  the  responsibility  for  the  failure 
was  wholly  his.  He  seems  to  have  done  what  he  was 
told,  or  at  least  authorized,  to  do.  There  is  nothing 
to  show  that  b**  did  not  condu«5l  himself  with  credit  at 
all  times,  except  in  the  single  instance  of  the  shipwreck. 
He  probably  received  conflifting  instrudlions  before 
he  left  Spain.  He  obeyed  those  which  were  given 
him,  as  there  is  excellent  reason  for  believing,  by  the 
Emperor  in  person.  Charles  V.  recognized  his  loyalty, 
and  when  the  legal  decisions  went  against  him,  Cabot 
continued  to  examine  pilots  and  to  construd  maps  for 
the  Spanish  government,  although  he  should  have 
been,  according  to  the  legal  court  records,  serving  in 
disgrace  with  i:he  army  in  Morocco.  The  fadls  of 
the  case  seem  to  be  that  Sebastian  Cabot  was  the 
responsible  head  of  a  very  costly  failure.  Sevillian 
merchants  had  adventured  heavily  in  the  enterprise, 
and  relatives  of  the  mutinous  subordinates,  whom 
Cabot  had  forcibly  repressed,  possessed  influence.  A 
propitiatory  sacrifice  was  plainly  a  necessity.  The 
vidlim  was  clearly  marked  out.  The  Imperial  schemes 
had  been  proven  to  have  no  sufficient  basis  to  justify 
the  change  of  plan  which  they  had  involved — and  no 
loyal  servant  could  think  of  taking  refuge  by  means 
of  excuses,  discredited  by  himself,  to  the  discrediting 


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Cabot  Controvcrsie :) 


of  his  royal  master.  Cabot  suffered  legal  condemna- 
tion, justly;  but  he  was  kept  in  pocket  money  by 
royal  grace,  and  he  apparently  suffered  in  no  other 
way. 

Cabot's   Intrigues  with  Foreign  Powers  are 

(225)  first  recorded  in  1522.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  they 
began  ten  years  earlier,  when  he  went  to  Spain  from 

(228)  England,  which  then  offered  no  opportunities  for  an 
anibitious  pradlitioner  of  navigation  and  cartography. 
After  1 530,  the  Spanish  Admiralty  was,  very  naturally, 
indisposed  to  entertain  the  schemes  of  the  foreign 
pilot-major  who  had  made  his  record  on  La  Plata. 
Sebastian  Cabot  was  essentially  a  man  with  schemes, 
with  a  brain  teeming  with  ideas  which  needed  to  be 
put  to  the  test  of  adtual  trial.  If  he  failed  in  pradice, 
if  the  world  happens  not  to  have  been  made  in  just 
the  way  he  conceived  that  it  should  have  been,  the 
fault  was  not  entirely  his.  He  had  ideas,  and  in  the 
world  as  he  knew  it  there  was  nothing  to  show  that 
his  ideas  were  impossible  of  practical  appHcation. 

Cabot  talked  much  in  1522  and  1523  of  serving 
his  native  city,  Venice.  How  seriously  he  contem- 
plated the  adlual  transference  of  his  services  to  that 

(223)  city  is  not  at  all  certain.  Twenty-five  years  later, 
he  went  to  England  to  accept  a  salary  from  the  English 
government,  without  notifying  his  Spanish  employers. 

(387)  It  has  been  said  that  he  sneaked  out  of  Spain,  but 
there  is  nothing  anywhere  in  the  sources  to  substantiate 
such  an  accusation.    Charles  V.  unquestionably  desired 


Cabot  Controvcrstes  xHx 

to  have  Cabot  return  to  the  Spanish  service.  Cabot 
refused  every  inducement  to  leave  England,  but  his 
refusal  does  not  seem  to  have  diminished  to  any  extent 
the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  Imperial  friend. 
No  reason  has  been  suggested  to  explain  these  repeated 
efforts  to  secure  his  services,  except  a  high  appreciation 
of  his  qualifications  and  capacity. 

The  Cabot  Map  of  i  544-1 549  began  to  be  a  (261) 
subje(5t  for  discussion  and  controversy  long  before  the  (39) 
recovery  of  the  extant  copy  of  the  original  engraving,  (55) 
now  in  Paris,  in  1843.     Certain  limited  portions  of 
the   map  have   since    been   studied    with   elaborate  (238) 
pains,  but  without  satisfadory  or  convincing  results. 
The  chief  difficulty  has  arise     from  a  persistent  de- 
sire to  utilize  the  evidence  of  the  map  for  the  sup-  (316) 
port  of  theories,  instead  of  trying  to  find  out  the  (391) 
exadl   value   of  this   evidence — mainly   because  this 
value  is  very  hard  to  determine.     The   map   now 
in  Paris  is  the  only  surviving   illustration   of  the 
handiwork   of  a  man  who  was  one  of  the  leading  (3^9*) 
cartographical  authorities  of  his  time,  and  the  con- 
figuration on  this  map  does  not,  perhaps,  »  stify  his 
reputation.      The  difficulty  with  the  commentators, 
however,  seems  to  be  in  part  that  they  fail  to  under- 
stand why  Sebastian  Cabot  in  1 544  knew  more  than 
he  did  in  1497  or  in  1530.     Trouble  also  arises  from 
an  assumption  that  Cabot  drew  with  his  own  hand  (41) 
the  manuscript  map  from  which  the  engraving  for 
the  printed  map  was  copied.     This  is  most  unlikely, 


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in  view  of  what  is  known  regarding  his  personal 
charadteristics  and  his  official  position.  If  the  evidence 
of  this  map  is  of  any  value,  Cabot  was  not  gifted  with 
noticeable  geogr?phical  insight.  So  far  as  this  one 
specimen  of  his  work  is  concerned,  he  seems  to  have 
(i8o)  taken  the  material  furnished  by  other  map-makers  and 
by  the  explorers,  as  the  results  of  their  work  came  to 
his  attention,  and  to  have  adapted  these  to  the  scheme 
of  configuration  applied  on  his  own  map.  The  fad 
that  his  representation  of  the  Newfoundland  region, 
which  he  may  liever  have  visited,  and  of  I^a  Plata, 
agrees  closely  with  the  best  maps  of  earlier  dates, 
merely  proves  that  Cabot  was  in  intelligent  communica- 
tion with  the  pradtitioners  of  his  profession  in  other 
parts  of  Europe. 


The  Easteriimos  of  the  Steelyard,  Hanseatic 
merchants  esL-blished  in  London,  were  deprived  of 
their  special  privileges  .1  1551  through  the  efforts  of 
the  Company  of  T  ierchants  Adventurers.  Sebastian 
Cabot  had  at  that  time  been  engaged  in  the  service  of 
the  English  government  for  three  years.  Less  than 
two  years  later  he  became  Governor  of  the  Merchants 
Adventurers.      It  is   therefore  not  unreasonable  to 

(535)  suppose  that  he  associated  himself  with  that  Company 
at  least  as  early  as  1550,  and  that  he  took  an  adive 

(295)  part  in  all  its  affairs.  It  has  been  stated  that  Cabot 
was  at  the  head  of  the  Company  during  the  struggle 
with  the  Steelyard  Merchants,  but  the  records  prove 

(387)  that  another  man  held  the  office  of  Governor  at  that 


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period.  This,  however,  is  far  from  proving  that  Cabot 
was  not  adlively  interested  in  the  struggle.  As  a  matter 
of  faft,  there  exists  no  contemporary  evidence  connect- 
ing his  name  with  this  episode,  concerning  the  details 
of  which  comparatively  little  is  known  at  all.  The 
natural  inferences  are  none  the  less  favourable  to 
Cabot's  share  in  the  business,  even  though  historical  (261) 
writers  have  blundered  in  expressing  these  inferences. 

The  Earliest  English  Voyages  to  the  North- 
Ea ST  were  a  result  of  Sebastian  Cabot's  efforts.     In  (128) 
recognition  of  these  efforts  he  was  appointed  by  royal  (133) 
charter  Governor  of  the  Merchants  Adventurers  for  (166) 
life.      He  did   not  sail  with  these  expeditions,  and 
the  command  devolved  upon  able  men,  who  knew  how 
to  turn  to  advantage  every  unexpected  experience. 
1  hey  sailed  for  Cathay,  and  found  the  northern  route 
to  Russia.     This  result  is  not  necessarily  a  condemna- 
tion of  the  man  who  made  the  voyages  possible. 

Cabot's  Pension,  or  salary,  was  divided  in  May,  (168) 
1557,  by  royal  order,  between  himself  and  William 
Worthington.  Nothing  was  said  in  this  new  grant  (169) 
about  the  proportion  either  was  to  receive,  and  inas- 
much as  Worthington  had  been  in  the  habit  of  draw- 
ing the  money  on  behalf  of  Cabot  during  the  preceding 
years,  it  is  very  hard  to  divine  the  exa6l  significance 
of  the  change  in  the  terms  of  the  royal  bounty. 

Worthington  became  Cabot's  literary  executor,  and  (125) 
it  is  a  reasonable  surmise  that  he  was  Cabot's  assistant,  (5  i) 


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or  was  in  some  way  associated  with  him  in  his  official 
duties  as  a  government  employe.  The  story  that 
Worthington  was  somehow  adling  as  a  secret  agent 
of  the  Spanish  government  is  ingenious,  but  there  is 
absolutely  nothing  in  the  sources  of  information  or  of 
inference  to  explain  why  such  a  story  should  ever  have 
gained  credence.  The  only  fadt  conneded  with  these 
pension  payments  to  which  it  seems  safe  to  attach 
(169'')  any  meaning,  is  that  in  December,  1 557,  Worthington 
drew  the  whole  amount  of  the  salary  in  his  own  name. 
The  only  explanation  of  this  which  has  been  suggested 
is  that  Cabot  was  no  longer  living. 


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ADAMS  (Clement)  The  newe  Nauigation  and  discouerie 
of  the  Icingdome  of  Moscouia,  by  the  Northeast,  in  the 
yeere  1553  •  Enterprised  by  Sir  Hugh  Willoughbie  knight, 
and  perfourmed  by  Richard  Chancelor  Pilot  maior  of  the 
voyage:  Written  in  Latine  by  Clement  Adams.  (i) 

An  English  version,  in  Hakluyt,  Voyages,  1598,  i.  243-255. 

"  The  original  Latin  is  to  be  found  only  in  the  folio  edition  of 
1600,  and  in  Rerum  moscoviticarum  auBore ; — Franco/.  1600,  folio, 
p.  143  " — according  to  Harrisse,  Cabot,  342,  n. 

Adams  states  that  "  certaine  graue  Citizens  uf  London,  and  men 
of  great  wisedome,  and  carefull  for  the  good  of  their  Countrey,  began 
to  thinke  with  themselues  .  .  .  they  thereupon  resolued  vpon  a  newe 
and  strange  Nauigation.  And  whereas  at  the  same  time  one  Sebas- 
tian Cabota,  a  man  in  those  dayes  very  renowmed,  happened  to  bee 
in  London,  they  began  first  of  all  to  deale  and  consult  diligently 
with  him,  and  after  much  speech  and  conference  together,  it  was  at 
last  concljded  .  .  .  for  the  search  and  discouerie  of  the  North- 
erne  part  of  the  world,  to  open  a  way  and  passage  to  our  men  for 
trauaile  to  newe  and  vnknowen  kingdomes." 

See  notei,  under  Cabot,  Nos.  39®,  48,  52  and  55''-55'^  for  an 
account  of  the  map  "cut  by  Clement  Adams"  and  supposed  to 
have  been  published  in  London  in  1549.  (i") 

AFFONSO  (SiMAo)    [Letter,  dated  Sevilha  II  dagosto  1 530. 

(2) 
The  original  manuscript  is  in  Lisbon,  Torre  do  Tombo,  Corp.  Chron. 
i.  45,  90,  according  to  Varnkagen,  who  first  printed  the  letter 
in  his  Historia  geral  do  Brazil, —  Madrid,  1854,  i.  439. 

Reprinted  in  part  in  Tarducci,  No.  538,  pp.  403-404;  translated 
into  English  in  No.  539. 

Dr.  Alfonso  reports  that  he  witnessed  the  return  of  Cabot  from  La 

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Plata,  and  that  all  but  twenty  of  the  two  hundred  men  whom  he  con- 
dufted  to  that  country  had  died  of  their  trials  and  hardships  :  e  de 
duzentos  homens  que  leuou  nao  tras  vyte  uue  todos  losoutras  dyzen 
que  la  ficao  mortos  hums  de  trabalho  e  fame  outros  de  guera  que 
eos  mouros  tiverao  por  que  as  frechadas  dize  que  matarao  muitos 
deles. 

ALBERI  (EuGENTo)  Relazioni  degli  ambasciatori  veneti  al 
senato  [durante  il  secolo  decimosestol  raccolte,  annotate  ed 
edite  da  Eugenio  Alberi  a  spese  di  una  societa. — Firenze^ 
i839(-i863).  (3) 

8vo,  IS  volunes. 

See  No.  79  for  the  Relazioni  di  Gasparo  CONTARINI,  16 
Novembre  1525,  first  printed  by  Alberi,  lot  Ser.  ii.  9-73. 

ALDAY  (James)     [Letter  to  Michael  Locke.  (4) 

Printed  in  Hakluvt,  Voyages,  ii.  319  (pt.  ii.  7-8).  Reprinted 
by  Arber,  No.  6,  p.  xix. 

Hakluyt  calls  this  letter  in  his  heading :  "  The  orginall  of  the 
first  voyage  for  trafHque  into  the  kingdom  of  Marocco  in  Barbarie, 
begun  in  the  yeere  1551.  with  a  tall  ship  called  the  Lion  of  London, 
whereof  went  as  captaine  Master  Thomas  Windam  .  .  .  which 
Aldaie  professeth  himselfe  to  haue  bene  the  first  inuentor  of  this 
trade."  Alday  writes  that  the  reason  why  he  did  not  make  the 
Barbary  voyage  when  he  was  "  master  in  the  great  Barke  Aucher 
for  the  Leuant "  was  that  "  first  the  very  trueth  is,  that  I  was  from 
the  same  voyage  letted  by  the  Princes  letters,  which  my  Master 
Sebastian  Gabota  had  obtained  for  that  purpose,  to  my  great  griefe  " 

\_No  author's  name] 
A  NEW  INTERLUDE  and  a  mery  of  the 

nature  of  the  .iiij.  elementf  declarynge  many  pro 
per  poyntf  of  phylosophy  natirall  /  and  of  dyuers 
straunge  landys  /  and  of  dyuers  straunge  efFedtf  & 
causis  I  &c.,  &c.,  &c.  (5) 

Small  8vo.  Black  Letter  type.  Probably  printed  in  London 
between  1510  and  1520.  The  Brit.'sh  Museum  contains  the  only 
original  copy  of  the  drama  now  known,  and  even  that  is  imperfeft. 
The  fragment  consists  of  thirty-two  leaves,  sigs.  A,  B,  C,  and  E, 
eight  leaves  each,  sig.  D  and  all  after  E  being  wanting. 

It  has  been  reprinted  in  Dodslev,  Stkii  ColleSiion  of  Old  Englith 
Plays  (Hazlitt  edition,  i.  1-50)  ;  and  by  the  Percy  Society,  edited 
by  Halliwell,  vol.  xxii. — London,  184.8. 

The  passages  containing  "  the  first  allusion  to  the  American 
discoveries  yet  found  in  (native)  English  literature  "  are  on  leaves 
Ci,  Cii  and  Ciij  of  the  original  and  on  pp.  28-3  3  of  the  Percy  Society 


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edition.  Nicholls,  No.  4.66,  pp.  91-98,  printed  these  lines,  with 
the  suggestion  that  "  the  Experyens  therein  Jepifled  was  none  other 
than  Sebastian  Cabot  himselt."  They  are  also  reprinted  in  Arbbr, 
No.  6}  BiDDLE,  see  No.  161  ;  Hale  in  the  American  Antiquarian 
Society  TransaSions,  21  Oftober,  1865,  29-30;  Winsor,  America, 
iii.  14-16;  Beazley,  No.  256,  280-282;  Payne,  No.  472,  239- 
241^ 

A  possible  connexion  between  the  fruitless  Cabot-Spert  voyage 
(see  Eden,  No.  95),  the  Cabot  voyage  described  by  Martyr,  No, 
159,  or  that  mentioned  by  Ramusio,  No.  196,  and  the 

*'  maryners, 
Fals  of  promys,  and  dissemblers  .  .  . 
Which  wold  take  no  paine  to  saile  farther 
Than  their  owne  lyst  and  pleasure ;  " 

has  been  suggested  in  No.  566*.  The  chronological  difficulties  are 
discussed  by  Harrisse,  Cabot,  157-167. 

ANGHIERA  (Pietro  Martire  de)  or 
ANGLERIUS  (Petrus  Martyr) 

See  Martyr,  Nos.  159-165,  the  name  by  which  Peter  Martyr 
of  Angleria  is  more  commonly  known. 

ARBER  (Edward)  The  first  Three  English  books  on 
America.  [?  1511J-1555  a,d.  Being  chiefly  Translations, 
Compilations,  &c.,  by  Richard  Eden,  From  the  Writings, 
Maps,  &c.,  of  Pietro  Martire,  of  Anghiera  (1455-1526), 
Sebastian  Miinster,  the  Cosmographer  (1489-1552),  Sebas* 
tian  Cabot,  of  Bristol  (1474- 1 557),  Grand  Pilot  of  England: 
With  Extracts,  &c.,  from  the  Works  of  other  Spanish, 
Italian,  and  German  Writers  of  thi  Time.  Edited  by 
Edward  Arber. — Birmingham^  22  Jrme  1885.  (0) 

4to,  2  T  +  pp  v-xlviii  -f-  1-408. 

See  Eden,  Nos.  95-97, 

The  justification  for  the  inclusion  of  Cabot's  name  on  the  title 
would  seem  to  be,  as  is  stated  in  the  preface,  p.  vi,  that  "  a  large 
portion  of  what  little  we  do  know  about  Sebastian  Cabot,  will  be 
round  in  the  notices  of  him  scattered  through  this  volume." 

AYALA  (Pedro  de)  [Dispatch  addressed  to  Ferdinand  and 
Isabella  by  the  junior  Spanish  ambassador  in  England. — 
London^  25  July,  1498.  (7) 

The  original  manuscript,  In  cipher,  is  at  Simancas,  Patronato 
Real:  Capitulaciones  con  Inglaterra,  leg.  2. 

It  was  deciphered  and  translated  by  BERGENROTH,forthe  Calendar 


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of  State  Papers  {Spain),  i.  176-177,  with  the  omission  of  a  signi- 
ficant sentence  recovered  by  Harrisse,  in  his  Cabot,  396. 

Reprinted  from  Bergenroth  by  Markham,  No.  450 ;  Beazley, 
No.  256;  Ppowse,  No.  489;  Nicholls,  Bristol,  No,  468,  iii. 
296-297;  Historical  Magazine,  xii'i.  i34-i3<;5  and  elsewhere. 

A  Spanish  text  is  orinted  by  Harrisse,  j.  et  S.  Cabot,  329-330  ; 
reprinted  by  Weare,  No.  559,  pp.  160-163. 

Two  paragraphs  in  this  long  dispatch  dealing  with  various  official 
and  news  matters,  report  that  the  English  king  had  sent  five  ships 
provisioned  for  one  year  to  explore  certain  islands  and  mainland 
which  he  was  assured  had  been  discovered  during  the  preceding  year 
by  an  expedition  fitted  out  from  Bristol.  News  had  reached  London 
that  one  ship,  in  which  had  sailed  "  un  otro  Fai  Buil " — perhaps 
*'  another  friar  Buil,"  referring  to  the  friar  who  accompanied 
Columbus,  in  the  same  way  as  Cabot  was  frequently  referred  to  as 
"  otro  genoves  como  Colon  " — had  been  driven  back  to  Ireland  in 
distress  by  a  great  storm.  The  other  vessels  were  expefted  to  return 
in  September. 

Ayala  reports  further  that  he  had  seen  the  map  drawn  by  the  dis- 
coverer, wno  was  "another  Genoese  like  Columbus."  He  did  not 
send  this  chart  or  mapamundi  to  their  Spanish  majesties,  because  he 
thought  that  they  were  already  informed  of  all  the  plans  of  this 
man,  and  also  ot  the  contents  of  his  map,  which  Ayala  retained. 
The  ambassador  suggests  that  the  map  may  be  intended  to  deceive 
them  into  believing  that  the  newly-discovered  region  w  s  not  the 
same  as  the  islands  secured  to  Spain  by  the  treaty  with  Poitugal  (at 
Tordesillas).     See  No.  19". 

The  discoverer  had  at  one  time  been  in  Seville  and  Lisbon,  in 
hopes  of  finding  some  one  to  help  him  carry  out  his  plans.  In 
accordance  with  his  ideas — con  la  fantasia  deste  Ginoves — Bristol 
people  had  fitted  out  two,  three,  or  four  light  vessels  or  caravelas 
in  each  of  the  preceding  seven  years,  to  search  for  the  island  of  (the 
mediaeval)  Brasil  and  the  Seven  Cities.     See  the  Introduftion,  p,  xii. 

This  dispatch  was  summarized  in  the  dispatch,  to  which  it  was 
perhaps  appended,  of  the  senior  Spanish  ambassador  to  England. 
Gonzalez  de  Puebla.    See  No.  120. 

The  difficulties  encountered  in  deciphering  this  manuscript,  which 
appears  not  to  have  been  completely  translated  pie»iuus]y,  even  by 
the  officials  to  whom  it  was  originally  addressed,  are  described  in  a 
letter  printed  in  W.  C.  Cartwright,  Gustazie  Bergenroth,  a  Me- 
morial Sketch. — Edinburgh,  1870,  pp.  76-77;  see  also,  205-216. 
A  portion  of  the  dispatch,  showing  the  cipher  letters,  is  reproduced 
with  Mr.  Bergenroth's  letter  to  Jared  Sparks,  dated  London, 
21  06lober,  1866,  printed  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Anti- 
quarian Society,  24  April,  1867,  pp.  39-40.  (ja) 

BARRERA  PEZZI. 

The  volume  in  which  the  important  letter  of  Raimondo,  No, 
190,  was  printed  for  the  first  time,  is  described  as  No.  251. 


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BELLEFOREST  (FRAN901S  de). 

The  Cosmograp/iie  njnivenelle, — Paris,  isiSt  's  mentioned  in  the 
notes  to  MuNSTER,  No.  175. 

BENDELARI  (George). 

Mr.  Bendelari's  translation  of  the  legends  on  the  1 544  Cabot  map 
is  described  in  the  note  No.  55". 

BENEVENTANUS  (Marcus). 

See  a  note  under  RuvscH,  No.  201,  tor  the  commentary  by 
Beneventanus  on  the  map  in  the  Rome  1508  edition  ot  Ptolemy's 
Geography. 

BENZONI  (GiROLAMo). 

See  notes  under  Chauveton,  No.  73. 

BERCHET  (GuGLiELMo)  Font!  Italian!  per  la  storia  della 
scoperta  del  nuovo  mondo  raccoke  da  Guglielmo  Berchet. 
— Roma.,  MDCCcxcii.  (8) 

Folio,  2  vols. :  z  T  +  pp  vii-xxxxvii  +  1-237  +  6  plates ;  2  T  + 
pp  vii-xi  +  1-495  +  plate. 

Part  III.  in  the  Raccolta  di  document i  e  stridi  pubblicati  dalla  R. 
Commissione  Colombiana. 

These  two  superb  volumes  contain  the  prrtinent  extracts  from  ail 
the  important  documents  which  conneft  the  Cabots,  and  the  other 
heroes  of  the  period  of  discovery,  with  Paly.  The  references  to 
Cabot  are  collefted  in  the  Index,  ii.  4.64.  A  document  printed 
herein  for  the  first  time  is  described  under  Contarini  (Marc- 
ANTONIO),  No.  80. 

See  Sanuto  (Marino),  No.  210. 

BERGENROTH  (Gustav  Adolf)  Calendar  of  letters, 
dispatches,  and  state  papers,  relating  to  the  negociations 
between  England  and  Spain,  preserved  in  the  archives  at 
Siman'-^s  and  elsewhere,  I484(-I543).  Edited  by  G.  A. 
Bergenroth  (vols,  iii-vi,  Pascual  de  Guayangos). — London, 
i862(-i895).  (9) 

The  "  Rolls  Series  "  of  Spanish  papers  comprise  six  volumes  in 
twelve  thick  folio  parts. 

See  Ayala,  No.  7,  and  Gonzalez  de  Puebla,  No.  120,  for 
the  important  Cabot  documents  which  were  unknown  until  they 
were  brought  to  light  by  Mr.  Bergenroth. 


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BERWICK  Y  LIRIA,  Y  DE  ALBA  (Maria  del 
RosARio  Talco  y  Osorio,  La  Du^juesa  de)  Autografos 
de  Cristobal  Colon  y  Papeles  de  Am<Srica  los  publica  La 
Duquesa  de  Berwick  y  de  Alba  Condesa  de  Siruela. — 
Madrid^  1892.  (10) 

Folio,  i  T  +  pp  i-v  +  1-203  +  'o  facsimiles. 

This  noble  contribution  to  the  literature  of  the  Columbian 
anniversary  contains,  pp.  109-120,  the  following  four  documents 
relating  to  Cabot's  La  Plata  expedition.  They  form  a  part  of  the 
series  described  under  Cabot,  Nos.  23-37. 

EJECUTORIO  a  pedimiento  de  Isabel  Mendez  y  Francisco 
Vazquez  contra  el  capitan  Sebastian  Caboto. — MicHna  del 
Ctimpo,  29  Hebrero,  1532.  (11) 

This  document  embodies  the  two  following : 

SENTENCIA  dada  por  los  Senoresdel  Consejo  de  las  Indias  en 
el  pleito  entre  Catalina  Vazquez  e  sus  hijas  e  el  Capitan  Sebastian 
Caboto. — j1<vila,  ^  ]\i\io,  1531.  (ii«) 

SENTENCIA  definitiva  dada  por  los  Senores  del  Consejo  de  las 
Indias  en  el  pleito  entre  Francisco  Vazquez  e  Isabel  Mendez 
y  Sebastian  Caboto. — Medina  del  CampOy  i  Hebrero,  1532. 

(iiA) 

INFORMACION  pedida  por  Francisco  Leardo  y  Francisco  de 
Santa  Cruz,  contra  Sebastian  Caboto. — Segouia,  28  Setiembre, 
i53«.  (12) 

BESTE  (George)  A  trve  discovrse  of  the  late  voyages  of 
discouerie,  for  the  finding  of  a  passage  to  Cathaya,  by  the 
Northvveast,  vnder  the  condudl  of  Martin  Frobisher 
Generall :  Deuided  into  three  Boolces.  In  the  first  wherof 
.  .  .  also  by  the  way  is  sette  out  a  Geographicall  descrip- 
tion of  the  Worlde,  and  what  partes  thereof  haue  bin  dis- 
couered  by  the  Nauigations  of  the  Englishmen. — London^ 
by  Henry  Bynnyman,  1578.  (13) 

Small  4to,  T  -f-  7  11  -J-  pp  1-52  +  1-39  4  1-68  +  2  maps. 

The  Epistle  Dedicatorie  is  signed  by  George  Beste. 

"Sebastian  Cabota,  being  an  Englishman,  and  borne  in  Bristowe," 
is  mentioned  on  1.  sig.  b.  This  is  repeated  on  p.  16,  with  the  addi- 
tional information  that  hf  *  was  by  commandement  of  Kyng  Henry 
the  seauenth,  in  anno.  .508.  furnished  with  Shipping,  munition, 
and  men,  and  sayled  along  all  that  tra6l  [whiche  nowe  is  called 
Baccalaos]  pretending  to  discouer  the  passage  to  Cataya,  and  went 
alande  in  many  places,  and  brought  home  sundry  of  the  people,  and 
manye  other  things  of  that  Countrey,  in  token  of  possession,  beeing 


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(I  say)  the  fir&te  Christians  that  euer  there  sette  toote  on  land." 
This  passage,  apparently  derived  in  part  from  Eden,  Nos.  95,  96, 
also  contains  statements  which  suggest  the  Fabyan  CAronicoH,  tio. 
105,  which  was  not  published  until  several  years  later  than  he  date 
of  Beste's  book.  For  the  date  1508,  see  the  Introdufti'  \  p.  xvii, 
and  also  WiNSOR,  America,  iii.  28-29,  and  36,  where  .  Ir.  J.  C. 
Brevoort  gave  reasons  for  believing  in  a  voyage  undertaken  in  that 
year,  and  Mr.  Deane  suggested  a  clerical  or  typographical  error. 

BREWER  (John  Sherren)  Letters  and  papers,  foreign 
and  domestic,  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII.  preserved  in  the 
public  record  office,  the  British  Museum,  and  elsewhere  in 
England,  arranged  and  catalogued  by  J.  S.  Brewer. — 
London^  i862(-i896).  (14) 

Twenty-two  thick  folio  volumes  of  the  Rolls  Series  contain  the 
British  state  papers  dating  from  1509  to  154.0.  The  editorial  work 
has  been  continued,  since  Mr.  Brewer's  death,  by  James  Gairdner 
and  R.  H.  Brodie. 

Two  of  the  entries,  published  for  the  first  time  by  Mr.  Brewer, 
establish  minor  details  in  the  career  of  Cabot.  One,  vol.  ii.  pt.  ii. 
1456,  is  from  "the  King's  Book  of  Payments,"  dated  May,  1512  : 

"Sebastian  Tabot  making  of  a  carde  [map]  of  Gascoine  and 
Guyon,  20J."  ('4^) 

The  other,  vol.  vi.  154,  is  a  payment,  on  18  February,  15x3-4, 
to  John  Goderyk  of  Foly  (Fowey)  in  Cornwall  for  "  his  charge, 
costis  and  labour  conduflyng  of  Sebastian  Cabott  master  of  the 
Pylotes  in  Spayne  to  London  "  at  the  request  of  the  testator.  Sir 
Thomas  Lovell,  43/.  4^.  Unfortunately  this  gives  no  clue  as  to 
when  Cabot  paid  this  visit  to  London.  (14^) 

BRISTOL,  England. 

The  reports  of  the  coUeftor-  of  r-jstoms  tor  the  port  of  Bristol,  for 
1497-1499,  are  described  under  Kemys,  No.  151. 

BROWN  (Rawdon)     Ragguagli  sulia  vita  e  sulle  opere  di 

Marin  Sanuto  detto  il  juniore  veneto  patrizio  e  cronista 

prege  volissimo  de  secoli  xv,  xvi. — Venezia^  mdcccxxxvii 

(-1838).  (15) 

8vo,  3  vols.,  3  T  4-  pp  9-250 ;  (0-258  ;  (i)-356  +  2  11. 

The  letter  of  Pas<^aligo,  No.  183,  was  first  printed  in  this 

work,].  99-100.     There  is  a  note  on  Cabot's  birthplace,  i.  217- 

218. 

An  autograph  note  in  the  Boston  Public  Library  copy  of  this 
work  reads :  "  Mr.  Rawdon  Brown  will  gladly  show  Mrs.  R.  E. 
Apthorp  what  he  considers  documentary  evidence  of  John  Cabot's 
English  origin  ;  and  of  his  never  having  come  to  Venice,  (where  he 
married  a  Venetian  woman  who  bore  him  Sebastian  &  his  other 


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sons)  \intil  the  year  14.61  .  .  .  Casa  ilelhi  Viila  Thursday  2  p.m." 
A  marginal  note,  i.  100-10^,  reads:  •*  I  printed  this  in  the  year 
i8j7;  but  in  1855-6,  it  became  manifest  thro' documents  discovered 
in  the  Venice  archives  .  .  .  that  althow  John  Cabot  was  a  Venetian 
by  adoption,  he  really  owed  his  birth  to  England."  Such  was  per- 
haps a  natural  dedu6\ion  at  Hrst  sight  of  the  documents  described 
under  Venice,  No.  224.. 

BROWN  (Rawdon)  Notices  concerning  John  Cabot 
and  his  Son  Sebastian,  Transcribed  and  translated  from 
original  Manuscripts  in  the  Marcian  Library  at  Venice. 
By  Rawdon  Brown.  (16) 

8vo,  T  +  pp  3-26. 

Communicated  by  Edward  Cheyney  to  the  Miscellanies  of  the 
Philobiblon  Society,  vol.  ii.  No.  7. — London,  Whittingham,  1855-6. 
100  copies  printed. 

This  privately  printed  volume  contains  the  earliest  English  ver- 
sion of  the  dispatches  of  PasOUALigo,  No.  183;  CONTARINl,  Nos. 
76,  77  ;  and  the  Council  of  Ten  of  Venice,  Nos.  225-227. 

Mr.  Brown  states,  p.  14.,  that  he  has  "not  been  able  to  discover 
any  trace  of  conversations  held  with  Sebastian  Cabot  by  Trevisan, 
Capello,  Cjuerini,  Badoer,  Pasqualigo,  Giustinian,  or  Surian,  who 
were  the  Venetian  ambassadors  in  England  from  1497  to  1522." 

BROWN  (Rawdon)  Calendar  of  State  Papers  and  Manu- 
scripts, relating  to  English  affairs,  existing  in  the  archives 
and  colledtions  of  Venice,  and  in  other  libraries  of  northern 
Italy.  Vol.  i.,  1 202-1 509.  Edited  by  Rawdon  Brown. — 
London^  1864.  (17) 

Folio,  T  -H  1  1  +  pp  i-clvii  +  '-395  -H  3  facsimiles. 

The  Rolls  Series  of  Venetian  documents,  to  1591,  has  been  con- 
tinued in  nine  volumes,  1864-1894. 

Besides  the  documents  mentioned  in  the  preceding  notes,  this 
volume  published  for  the  first  time  the  letters  described  under 
Navaoero,  No.  177,  and  Raimondo,  No.  190. 

The  real  fa6ts  of  the  Cabot  discovery  were  not  generally  under- 
stood by  the  English  reading  public  until  after  the  appearance  of 
this  volume,  despite  the  fa6t  that  students  had  had  access  tor  a  decade 
to  an  English  version  of  these  documents  in  the  Philobiblon  volume, 
which  was  summarized  in  Notes  and  Slueries  by  Mr.  Markland, 
No.  455. 

BULLO  (Carlo). 

Most  of  the  significant  Cabot  documents  were  printed  by  Sig. 
Bullo  in  his  l^era  Patria, — CAioggia,  1880,  which  is  described  as 
No.  290. 


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BURROUGH  (Steven)  The  Nauigation  and  discoueric 
toward  the  riucr  of  Ob,  made  by  Master  Steuen  IJurrough, 
Master  of  the  Pinnesse  called  the  Scrch-thrift  ...  in  the 
yere  1556.  (18) 

In  Hakluyt,  l^ovages,  i.  274-283  ;  Goldsmid  edition,  iii.  116- 
137  J  PiNKERTON,  f^oyages,  i.  51-61. 

Burrough  rtcords  that  on  April  27,  1556,  "the  right  Worship- 
full  Sebastian  Cabota  came  aboord  our  Pinnesse  at  Grauescnde,  .  .  . 
and  the  good  olde  Gentleman  .  .  .  gaue  to  the  poore  most  liberall 
almes,  .  .  .  And  then  at  the  signe  of  the  Christopher,  hee  and  his 
friends  banketted,  and  made  .  .  .  great  cheere  :  and  for  very  ioy 
...  he  entred  into  the  dance  himselfe,  amongst  the  rest  of  the 
young  and  lusty  company  :  "  p.  274.. 

Some  misapprehension  existed  for  a  time  (see  Biddle,  No.  261, 
pp.  320-321)  because  of  the  heading:  Na'vigatione  di  Sebaitiano 
CabotOy  which  appears  above  an  Italian  version  of  a  log  of  this 
voyage,  in  Ramusio,  f^iaggi,  ii.  211-219,  editions  of  1583  and 
1606.  See  note  to  No.  195.  The  Italian  text  does  not  contain  any 
allusion  to  Cabot's  participation  in  the  farewell  to  the  expedition. 
See  the  notes  under  O'Brien,  No.  470*. 

CABOT  (Elizabeth). 

See  note  under  Mychell,  No.  176. 

CABOT  (John). 

The  only  known  extant  records  which  may  possibly  preserve  the 
words  of  John  Cabot  are  the  petitions  in  response  to  which  the 
Letters  Patent  of  5  March,  1496,  and  3  February,  '498*  were 
granted  by  Henry  VII.,  as  described  under  Nos.  136  and  140. 

A  map  drawn  by  John  Cabot  is  described  by  Ayala,  No.  7. 

(19a) 

A  map  of  the  world  and  also  a  globe  "  which  he  had  made,"  are 
described  by  Raimondo  di  Soncino,  No.  190:  messer  Zoanno 
ha  la  descriptione  del  mondo  in  una  carta,  et  anche  in  una  sphere 
solida  che  lui  ha  fatto  et  demostra  dove  e  capitato,  et  andando  versa 
el  levante  ha  passato  assai  el  paese  del  Tanais.  ('9^) 

A  "Coeart"  by  which  Cabot  "made  himself  expert  in  knowyng 
of  the  world"  is  mentioned  in  the  Fabyan  Cronicon,  No.  105. 

(■95) 
A  painting  representing  John  Cabot  and  his  three  sons  hangs  in 
the  Sala  dello  Scudo  of  the  Ducal  Palace  in  Venice.  It  is  said  to 
have  been  painted  by  the  Abbe  Francesco  Griselini  in  1763.  It  is 
copied,  from  a  small  photograph,  in  the  Neiv  England  Magazine, — 
Boston,  February,  1898,  xvii.  655.  (20) 


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CABOT  (Sebastian)  [Deposition  of  Sebastian  Cabot  rela- 
tive to  the  latitude  of  Cape  St.  Augustin — 13  November, 
1515.  (21) 

Manuscript  copy  among  the  Munoz  Transcripts,  in  the  Academia 
de  la  Historia,  Madrid,  from  a  "  Registro  de  copias  de  cedulas, 
provisiones,  &c.  de  la  Casa  de  la  Contratacion  desde  5  de  Febrero 
de  1 51 5  hasta  6  de  Marzo  de  1519." 

Printed  by  Navarrete,  Cokccion,  iii.  319,  or  Opusculos,  i.  66. 

In  this  document,  Cabot  declares  that  he  believes  in  the  reliability 
of  certain  observations  tak'^n  by  Amerigo  Vespucio,  which  had  ac- 
quired importance  during  the  negociations  tor  determining  the  line 
of  demarcation  between  the  Spanish  and  Portuguese  spheres  of  ex- 
ploration. 

An  account  of  the  native  tribes  with  whom  Cabot  came  in  con- 
taft  during  his  expedition  to  La  Plata,  and  of  the  natural  resources 
of  that  region,  which  is  printed  in  Herrera,  Historia,  No.  143, 
Dec.  iiii.  Lib.  viii.  cap.  xi.  with  the  heading  :  "  La  relacion  que 
hizo  al  Rey,"  may  very  probably  be  an  extraft  from  Cabot's  ofHcial 
report,  quoted  in  his  own  words.  In  the  1730  Barcia  edition  of 
Herrera,  this  extrafl  is  printed  in  italics,  as  a  quotation.  (22) 

CABOT  (Sebastian)  Informacion  hecha  en  Sevilla  en 
28  Julio  dentro  de  la  nao  S*^  Maria  donde  venia  Sebastian 
Caboto,  por  los  oficiales  de  la  Casa  de  la  Contratacion 
acerca  J"  todo  lo  ocurrido  en  su  viaje.  (23) 

Manuscript  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies,  Seville,  P".  1-2- 

Printed  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  422-427. 

This  document  contains  the  deposition  made  by  Cabot  in  reply 
to  the  charges  of  mismanagement  and  criminality  brought  against 
him  on  behalf  of  those  who  had  suffered  from  the  failure  of  the 
expedition  to  La  Plata. 

Similar  depositions  were  made  at  the  same  time  by  Juan  de  Junco, 
Casimir  Nuremberguer,  and  Alonso  de  Santa  Cruz:  see  Nos.  150, 
179,  207. 

In  addition  to  the  above,  HarRISSE,  Cabot,  412-415,  cites  the 
following  titles  of  documents  found  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies  at 
Seville,  which  relate  to  the  lawsuits  which  resulted  from  the  diffi- 
culties that  arose  during  the  expedition  to  La  Plata. 

Informacion  hecha  en  el  Puerto  de  San  Salvador  fecha  23  Junio 
por  el  Capitan  Sebastian  Caboto  sobre  el  proceso  que  comen^o 
a  formar  desde  1 526  contra  Francisco  de  Roxas,  y  Martin 
[Mendez]  e  Miguel  de  Rodas,  para  luego  presentado  al  Con- 
sejo.  (24) 

Paraceres  que  dieron  varios  pilotes  y  capitanes  en  el  puerto  de 
San  Salvador  en  6  de  06tubre  a  peticion  del  Capitan  Sebastian 


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determinacion  tomar.  (25) 

Informacion  hecha  en  el  puerto  de  San  Salvador  en  12  de  Oftubre 
por  mandado  de  Sebastian  Caboto  mediante  un  ynterrogatorio 
que  prexento  tocante  a  todos  los  sucesos  que  pasaron  en  un 
armada  para  luego  despues  presentada  a  S.  M.  (26) 

Requerimiento  que  hizo  Sebastian  Caboto  a  Francisco  de  Rojasy 
respuestas  de  este.     En  el  puerto  de  San  Vincente.  (27) 

[Declaracion  que  dio  en  el  puerto  de  San  Vicente  del  Brazil  sobre 
las  tropelias  del  general  Sebastian  Gaboto  al  capitan  Francisco 
de  Rojas  por  haberse  este  opuesto  a  la  arribada  que  hizo  al  Rio  de 
la  Plata,  en  vez  de  seguir  el  viaje  de  la  Especeria  al  socorro  del 
comendador  Loaisa.  (This  document,  which  may  be  the  same 
as  No.  27,  is  cited  by  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  i.  30-31,  a«  in 
Seville,  leg.  de  Papeles  de  la  Armada  del  mar  del  Sur,  1624-1626 
atlos.     It  cannot  now  be  found.)  (28) 

Informacion  hecha  en  Sevilla  2  de  Agosto  a  peticion  de  Catalina 
Vazquez  msdre  de  Martin  Mendez,  y  de  Isabel  de  Rodas  muger 
de  Miguel  de  Rodas  contra  el  capitan  Sebastian  Caboto.    (29) 

Informacion  hecha  en  Sevilla  a  pedimento  de  Sebastian  Caboto 
en  27  Agosto  sobre  lo  que  le  sucedio  con  las  rebeliones  que 
tuvo  en  su  armada.  (30) 

Dos  relaciones  de  probanzas  en  el  pleito  entre  Sebastian  Caboto 
y  Catalina  Vazquez,  madre  de  Martin  Mendez,  teniente  de  la 
(jxpedicion  que  fue  al  Maluco  al  mando  de  Caboto.  (This 
contemporary  summary  of  the  substance  of  the  two  preceding 
documents  was  exhibited  in  the  Exposicion  Americanista  at 
Madrid,  1881.)  (31) 

Probanza  hecha  en  Ocafia  a  peticion  del  Capitan  Francisco  de 
Rojas,  en  2  de  Noviembre  de  1530,  con  arreglo  aun  interroga- 
torio  que  presento  de  26  preguntas,  acerca  de  lo  que  le  sucedio 
en  la  armada  de  Sebastian  Caboto  y  las  vegaciones  que  este  lo 
hizo.  (32) 

Acusacion  del  Fiscal  Villalobos  contra  Sebastian  Caboto  por  los 
ecesos  cometidos  con  la  gente  de  mar  y  perdida  de  la  armada 
de  la  Especeria  y  en  virtud  de  Real  Cedula.  Receptoria  de  6 
de  Oftubre  1530.  (33) 

Informacion  presentada  por  Isabel  de  Rodas  viuda  del  piloto 
Miguel  de  Rodas  acerca  de  la  muerte  que  occasiono  Sebastian 
Caboto.     Fecha  en  Sevilla  3  Encro.  (34.) 

Informacion  hecha  en  Sevilla  en  21  Julio  presentada  por  el 
capitan  Sebastian  Caboto  para  el  pleito  que  siguio  contra 
Francisco  de  Rojas.  (35) 

Informacion  hecha  en  Sevilla  en  i6  Agosto  1531,  y  presentada 
por  Isabel  de  Rodas  contra  Sebastian  Caboto.  (36) 


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Sentencia  definitiva  dada  por  los  Senores  del  Consejo  de  las  Indias 
en  el  pleito  entre  el  Capitan  Francisco  de  Rojas  y  Sebastian 
Caboto.     Medina  del  Campo,  i  Febrero  1532.  (37) 

Four  additional  documents  belonging  to  this  series  are  cited  under 
Berwick  y  Alba,  Nos.  10-12. 

CABOT  (Sebastian)     [Letter  to  Juan  de  Samano — Sevilla 
(24  June)  1533.  (38) 

Autograph  original  manuscript  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies, 
Seville,  Est.  143,  Caj.  3,  Leg.  2.  Copied,  in  Munoz  Transcripts, 
Madrid,  Ixxix.  fol.  287. 

There  is  a  facsimile  of  the  autograph  copy  in  Harrisse,  Cabot, 
4.29;  reproduced  in  Scrihner's  Magazine, — Neiu  Tork,]\x\y,  1897, 
xxii.  69. 

Printed  in  Tarducci,  No.  539;  Boletin  R.  Acad.  Historia, — 
Madrid,  April,  1893,  xxii.  348-350,  see  Peres,  No.  476;  Raccolta 
Ui  documenti,  R.  Commissione  Colombiana, — Roma,  1892,  III.  ii. 
396-397,  see  Berchet,  No.  8. 

Translated  by  Beazley,  No.  256,  pp.  208-210. 

In  this  letter  to  the  secretary  of  Charles  V.  Cabot  tells  of  his  plans 
for  renewed  explorations  :  toda  via  tiene  gana  de  tomar  la  enpresa 
del  rio  de  parana  que  tan  caro  me  questa.  He  apologizes  for  the 
delay  in  completing  three  maps,  one  for  Samano  and  two  for  the 
Emperor,  explaining  that  this  had  been  due  to  the  death  of  his 
daughter  and  the  illness  of  his  wife.  When  the  maps  are  finished, 
he  promises  that  they  shall  show  why  the  compass  needle  turns  to- 
wards the  north-east  and  north-west,  and  that  this  will  provide  His 
Majesty  with  a  sure  rule  for  finding  the  longitude  :  creo  c[ue  su 
magestad  y  los  seiiores  del  conseyo  qudaron  satisfechos  dellas  por  q 
veran  co  mo  se  puede  navegar  por  redondo  por  sus  derotas  [Harrisse 
suggests  that  this  means  :  by  means  of  the  indications  of  the  com- 
pass or  rhumbo]  como  se  aze  por  vna  carta  y  la  causa  por  q  nordestea 
y  noruestea  laguya  y  como  es  for^oso  q  lo  aga  y  que  tantas  quartas 
a  de  nordestear  y  noruestear  antes  q  torna  aboluerse  azia  el  norte 
y  en  que  meridianc  y  con  esto  terna  su  magt  la  regla  cierta  para 
tomar  la  longitud. 

The  letter  closes  with  a  request  that  the  officials  of  the  Casa  de 
Contratacion  may  be  instrufted  to  pay  him  a  third  of  his  salary, 
which  would  enable  him  to  visit  His  Majesty's  Council  with  a  ser- 
vant whom  he  had  left  behind  on  the  coast  of  Brazil,  and  who  had 
recently  returned,  bringing  information  as  to  what  the  Portuguese 
were  doing  there. — Cabot's  salary  had  been  attached  as  a  result  of 
the  lawsuits  growing  out  of  the  expedition  to  La  Plata.  The  royal 
orders  in  which  the  Queen  Regent  direfted  that  portions  of  his 
salary  should  be  paid  him,  dated  11  March  and  11  May,  1531,  and 
12  March,  1532,  are  described  as  Nos.  68-70:  other  memoranda 
regarding  his  salary  are  noted  as  Nos.  111-113. 


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CABOT  (Sebastian)  In  hac  protens  in  planum  figura 
continetur  totus  terre  glodus  insule,  portus,  flumina, 
sinus,  syrtuset  breuia,  qj  hatenus  aneotericis  adaperta  sunt, 
eorum%  nomina  et  qui  ea  loca  aperuere  ut  eisdem  huius 
figure  tabulis  liquidius  patet  ad  hec  omnium  q  a  maioribus 
cognita  sunt,  necnon  que  a  Ptholomeo  referuntur  regionum 
scilscet  prouinciarum,  urbiii,  motium,  fluuioru,  climatii, 
parallelorumq,  tarn  Europe  q  Asie  &  Aphricze  exadta  de- 
scriptio.  Anotibis  tame  cadide  ledlor  situm  hunc  orbis 
terrarii  depidlii  esse  iuxta  uariatione  qua  acus  nauatica 
utitur  ad  artii  septetrionalis  obseruationi  cuius  ratione  per 
legere  potes  tabula  secunda  decimi  septimi  numeri.       (39) 

This  Latin  title,  followed  by  a  Spanish  version  of  the  same  text, 
is  on  the  south-west  quadrant  of  a  world  map  printed  from  an  en- 
graving on  copper-plate,  composed  of  four  separately  printed  parts, 
each  measuring  80  x  62  centimetres,  pasted  together  on  cardboard, 
the  whole  measuring  2  m.  19  x  i  m.  25,  or  5  tt,  11  x  4  ft.  i. 

The  only  copy  of  this  map  now  known  to  exist  is  exhibited  in 
the  Geographical  department  of  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale  at  Paris. 
It  was  found  in  1843  by  Von  Martius  in  the  house  of  a  curate  in 
Bavaria,  and  \v"s  purchased  by  the  French  Government  during  the 
following  year.  (39*) 

Another  copy,  as  may  safely  be  assumed,  is  noted  in  the  list  of 
maps  consulted  by  Ortelius  during  the  preparation  of  his 
Theatrum  Orbis  Terrariim,  1 570,  No.  180.  It  is  described  as  "  Vni- 
uersalem  Tabulam ;  quam  impressam  aeneis  formis  vidimus,  sed 
sine  nomine  loci,  &  impressoris."  (39'^) 

A  facsimile  of  the  Paris  map,  made  by  E,  Rembielinski,  was  pub- 
lished in  JOMARD,  Monutnents  de  la  Geographie,  1862,  plate  xx  :  it 
lacks  two  of  the  corner  ornamentations,  a  few  names  on  the  map, 
and  the  accompanying  legends  described  below,  Nos.  54,  55.    (39^) 

Thirteen  full-size  photographic  facsimiles  were  made  in  1882, 
through  the  efforts  of  several  New  England  students  represented  by 
Mr.  Charles  Deane.  Two  of  these  were  retained  by  the  Biblio- 
theque Nationale,  and  the  others  were  deposited  with  the  Massa- 
chusetts Historical  Society,  the  Public  Library,  and  the  AthenEeum 
Library  in  Boston,  the  American  Antiquariin  Society  in  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  the  Harvard  Univer>ity  Library  at  Cambridge,  the 
New  York  Historical  Society  and  the  American  Geographical 
Society  in  New  York  City,  the  Long  Island  Historical  Society  in 
Brooklyn,  the  Library  Company  in  Philadelphia,  the  Virginia 
Historical  Society  at  Richmond,  and  the  Maine  Historical  Society 
at  Portland.  (39*) 

The  Canadian  Minister  of  Agriculture,  afting  through  the 
Dominion  Archivist,  Dr.  Douglas  Brymner,  secured  from  Paris  in 


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1897  a  negative  from  the  map,  from  which  a  photo-lithograph  of 
the  map  was  made.  Copies  of  this  facsimile,  which  is  somewhat 
less  than  half  the  size  of  the  original,  accompany  Brymner,  Report 
on  Canadian  Archi'ves,  1897, — Oitaiva,  1898,  and  also  Dawson, 
Latest  Phases,  No.  319.  (39*) 

A  careful  facsimile  of  the  North  Atlantic  portion  of  the  map, 
showing  the  colors  of  the  original,  is  in  Harrisse,  J,  et  S. 
Cabct,  1882.  From  this,  reouced  copies  were  made,  without  the 
colors,  for  his  Discovery  and  Cabot.  Thesignificant  portions  of  the 
map  are  also  copied  in  Stevens,  Hist,  ami  Geog.  Notes,  pi.  4 ;  La 
GRAVitRE,  Marins, — Paris,  1879,  '•  >  Brevoort,  in  Historical 
Magazine  (Dawson),  March,  1868,  xiii.  129;  WiNsOR,  America, 
iii.  22,  and  Columbus,  626,  copied  in  Brymner,  Canactian  Archives, 
Dawson,  Latest  Phases,  and  elsewhere;  Winship,  Coronado,  in 
Xlf.  Report  of  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Ethmhgy,  352;  Kretschmer, 
Entdeckung  Amerikas ;  Markham,  Journals,  xxxii. ;  Weare,  Cabot^ 
266;  Scribner's  Magazine,  Jui^  897,  xxii.  66,  67:  see  note  to 
Piers,  No.  481.  The  facsimile,  wliich  is  referred  to  in  Goldsmid's 
Hakluy',  No.  133,  as  "facing  p.  23  o*^  vol.  xii,"  was  apparently  not 
published. 

The  cartographic  portion  of  the  plate  is  elliptical,  and  is  com- 
posed on  the  orthographic  projection  devised  by  Apianus  in  1524, 
the  scale  of  longitude  being  one-third  less  than  that  of  the  latitude. 
"  It  contains  indications  of  magnetic  lines  with  no  variation,  which 
are  transformed  into  meridians,  and  starting  points  calculated  to 
en?Hle  mariners  to  find  the  longitude  at  sea."  The  four  comers  of 
the  plate,  beyond  the  limits  of  the  map  proper,  exhibit  each  a  large 
engraved  head  of  Eolus,  colored  by  hand,  like  the  coasts,  figures  of 
men,  animals,  and  things  within  the  map.  On  the  upper  part,  to 
the  left,  is  an  engraving  of  the  Annunciation,  with  a  Latin  paraphrase 
of  the  angelic  salutation  in  six  lines.  To  the  right,  are  the  engraved 
arms  of  the  Empire,  surmounting  an  absolutely  unintelligible  in- 
scription in  Spanish  :  Solas  del  Solo  en  el  mundo  en  seruicio  delas 
quales  muriendo  viuen  leaks.  In  the  lower  corners  on  each  side  is 
a  cosmographical  table  of  latitudes  in  degrees  and  minutes,  each  en- 
closed within  a  frame.  (39*) 

This  description  of  the  map,  adapted  from  Harrisse,  Cabot, ^-^j- 
438,  and  his  Cabot  Cartographe,  No.  391,  may  be  compared  with 
that  given  by  M.  D'Avezac  in  the  Bulletin  de  la  Societi  de  Geo- 
graphie, — Paris,  1857,  4  Ser,  xiv.  268-270.  The  tables  of  letter- 
press which  re  pasted  upon  the  sides  of  the  map,  are  described  in 
detail  below. 

The  title  of  the  map,  of  which  the  Latin  version  is  quoted  above. 
No.  39,  states  that  "this  figure,  projefled  on  a  plane,  contains  all 
the  lands  .  .  .  which  have  yet  been  discovered,  with  their  names 
and  the  discoverers  of  them,  as  is  more  clearly  expressed  in  the 
accompanying  tables  (of  inscriptions  or  legends)  together  with  all 
that  was  previously  known.  .  .  .  And  you  should  note  that  the 
land  is  placed  according  to  the  variation  which  the  compass  needle 


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makes  with  the  north  star,  the  reason  for  which  may  be  seen  in  the 
^econd  column  number  seventeen."  This  seventeenth  legend — see 
No.  55" — states  that  "Sebastian  Cabot,  captain  and  pilot  major  to 
the  Emperor  Charles  V,  made  this  figure  projefted  on  a  plane  in 
the  year  .  .  .  1544,  having  drawn  it  by  degrees  of  latitude  and 
longitude,  with  the  winds,  as  a  sailing  chart,  following  partly 
Ptolemy  and  partly  the  modern  Spanish  and  Portuguese  discoveries, 
and  partly  the  discovery  made  by  his  father  and  himself;  by  it  you 
may  sail  as  by  a  sea  chart,  having  regard  to  the  variation  of  the 
needle." 

There  is  no  indication  on  the  map  or  in  the  printed  legends  to 
show  where  it  was  drawn,  engraved,  printed  o"  published.  The 
typographical  appearance,  interpreted  by  what  is  known  of  the  arts 
of  printing  and  engraving  during  the  second  quarter  of  the  sixteenth 
century,  have  led  students  to  agree  with  Mr.  Harrisse  in  assuming 
that  the  map  was  printed  in  the  Spanish  Netherlands,  probably  at 
Antwerp,  at  about  the  date  given  in  the  legen»'   ,uoted  above — 1544. 

The  plates  used  for  printing  the  map  now  in  Paris,  or  copies  oi 
the  map  printed  from  those  plates,  may  have  been  sent  from  the 
place  of  original  publication  to  London,  where  a  new  set  of  the 
accompanying  Latin  legends  appears  to  have  been  published,  and 
issued  with  copies  of  the  map,  by  Clement  Adams  in  1549. 
This  edition  of  the  legends  is  discussed  below,  No.  55a:  if  they 
accompanied  an  engraved  map,  it  was  perhaps  printed  from  the  same 
plates  as  the  one  now  at  Paris ;  see  the  notes  Nos.  49  and  52. 
Hakluyt,  followed  by  Purchas,  speaks  of  this  London  1 549  map  as 
"  cut  "  by  Adams.  It  is  not  unlikely  that  changes  may  have  been 
made  on  the  plates  by  Adams,  or  under  his  direftion,  especially 
since  there  is  every  reason  to  suppose  that  Adams  was  acquainted 
with  Cabot  at  this  period.  Mr.  Harrisse,  however,  has  advanced 
strong  reasons  for  not  accepting  this  language  in  its  literal  sense  of 
"engraved,"  as  implying  an  entirely  new  map.  (39*) 

Dr.  Dawson,  who  compared  the  various  references  to  these  maps 
with  much  insight  in  1894 — No.  316 — concluded:  (i)  "  That  the 
Paris  map  of  1 544  is  not  Cabot's  in  any  sense  that  would  make  him 
responsible  for  its  accuracy,  that  it  was  not  published  or  prepared  in 
Spain,  that  he  never  corrected  the  proofs,  but  that  he  probably  con- 
tributed in  some  measure  to  the  material  from  which  its  unknown 
author  compiled  it." 

"  (2)  That  the  map  in  the  Queen's  Gallery  engraved  by  Clement 
Adams  was  essentially  different  in  its  American  geography  from 
that  of  1544,  and  that  it  was  based  on  some  of  Cabot's  charts  made 
in  England,  and  that  Lok's  map  (No.  1 56)  taken  with  Gilbert's  and 
Willes's  statements  (Nos.  48  and  49)  affords  a  useful  indication  as  to 
what  these  charts  contained."  (39') 

At  least  one  copy  of  the  London  1549  map  belonged  to  the 
Crown,  and  hung  in  the  Privy  Gallery  at  Whitehall  (1576  and 
1625)  or  Westminster  (1589-1600).  A  copy  was  seen  at  Oxford 
by  Chytr^us  (No.  75)  some  time  after  1565.     There  were  said 


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H AKLU VT  wrote  in  1 584,  and  again  in  1 600.  De  La  ^ t  (No.  •.  54) 
probably  relied  on  Hakluyt  tor  his  statement  that  not  a  few  copies 
of  the  map  still  remained  in  England  in  1633.  (39") 

The  words  "prima  terra  uista,"  placed  against  the  north-eastern 
point  of  what  represents  Cape  Breton  island  on  this  map,  afford 
the  most  conclusive  evidence  for  locating  the  spot  of  Cabot's  land- 
fall in  1497. — See  the  Introduftion,  pp.  xiv  and  xl-xli,  and  the 
accompanying  references.  (39^) 


CABOT  (Sebastian) 

Sebastian  Cabot  is  recorded  as  having  drawn  the  following 
maps,  each  of  which  probably  existed  only  in  manuscript 
form : 

Three  maps,  drawn  for  Charles  V.  and  his  secretary 
Samano,  as  described  in  Cabot's  letter  of  1533 — see  the 
notes  to  No.  38,  and  Harrisse,  Discovery,  594-595.    (40) 

[A  MANUSCRIPT  DRAFT  or  slcetch  of  some  sort  for  the 
engraved  map  No.  39  ;  see  the  Introdudlion,  p.  xlix.  (41) 

Vn  Mapa  mondo  GRANDE,  which  Cabot  showed  some 
time  before  1547  to  the  Mantuan  gentleman  who  is 
quoted  by  Ramusio  and  discussed  in  the  notes  to  No. 
194.  This  map  showed  the  Portuguese  and  Spanish 
voyages.  (42) 

Vn  mapa  mundi  cortado  por  el  equinocio,  which  Cabot 
sent  to  Charles  V.  from  London  in  November,  1553,  as 
described  in  an  accompanying  letter,  No.  59.  Harrisse 
suggests  that  this  map  may  have  been  identical  with  the 
one  which  Juan  Bautista  Gesio,  in  a  memorial  addressed 
to  the  Spanish  Icings,  dated  Madrid,  20  September,  1575, 
declared  to  be  royal  property.     It  was  described  as :    (43) 

Vn  mapa  antiguo  de  pergamino  iluminado,  in  the  library 
of  Juan  de  Ovando,  the  deceased  president  of  the  Consejo 
de  las  Indias.  See  the  notes  to  Jimenez  de  la  Espada, 
No.  423,  or  Harrisse,  Cabot,  183.  This  same  map  may 
have  been  the  one  described  a^' ;  (44) 


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Vn  mapa  que  dio  (Sebastian  Caboto)  al  Rey  de  Castilla, 
which  figured  43°  longitude  between  Goa  and  Mozam- 
bique, according  to  Cespedes,  No.  63.  (45) 

Vma  carta  universel  de  todo  el  orbe  en  piano  6  en  un 
cuerpo  esphcrico,  was,  according  to  Oviedo,  No.  182,  a 
thing  which  Cabot  was  competent  to  construct :  he  does 
not  specify  any  particular  example.  (46) 

Una  carta  da  navigare  diligentissima  fatta  a  mano,  e 
tutta  ritratta  a  punto  da  una  propria  del  detto  Caboto, 
which  Guido  Giancti  de  Fano  examined  in  London, 
during  the  reign  of  Edward  VI.,  and  which  he  described 
to  Livio  Sanuto,  No.  209,  as  showing  a  meridian,  based 
upon  a  point  of  no  magnetic  variation,  a  hundred  and  ten 
miles  west  of  P'lores,  an  island  of  the  Azores  group.  This 
map  was  presumably  identical  with  one  of  the  following : 

(47) 
Charts,  whiche  are  yet  to  bee  seene,  in  the  Oueenes 
Maicsties  priuie  Gallerie,  at  Whitehall ;  in  which,  nccord- 
ing  to  Gilbert,  No.  117,  writing  before  1566,  "Cabot 
hath  by  his  personall  experience  set  foorth,  and  described  " 
the  north-west  passage  to  Cathay.  One  of  these  may 
have  been  the  engraved  map  of  1544  or  1549,  but  there 
seems  to  be  no  good  reason  for  doubting  the  correctness 
of  Gilbert's  plural.  See  the  notes  under  55".  That  there 
was  a  map  showing  Cabot's  American  discoveries  in  the 
palace  at  Whitehall  seems  to  be  stated  by  Strachey,  No. 
213:  "the  draught  of  w"^**  voyage  is  yet  to  be  seene."    (48) 

His  carde  drawen  with  his  ownc  hande  ;  on  which  Willes, 
No.  230,  in  1577  read  Cabot's  "owne  discourse  of  naui- 
gation."  Like  the  map  described  by  Gilbert,  this  one 
apparently  showed  a  north-west  passage,  so  that  it  could 
hardly  have  been  the  engraved  map  of  1544,  although  the 
accompanying  narrative  strongly  suggests  their  identity. 
The  suggestion  has  not  been  made  that  Clement  Adams 
mav  have  published  a  map,  showing  Cabot's  discoveries  in 
the  North  Atlantic,  with  the  text  quoted  by  Hakluyt 
— see  No.  55^ — but  without  the  other  legends  from  the 
1 544  map.  (49) 

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CABOT  (Sebastian)     Maps — continued. 

His  (cartographicall)  table,  the  which  my  good  Lorde 
(of  Bedford)  hath  at  Cheynies  ;  is  also  referred  to  by 
WiLLES.  It  is  not  necessary  to  suppose  that  this  "  table  " 
and  the  "carde"  mentioned  in  the  preceding  paragraph 
were  identical,  although  both  represented  open  water  to- 
wards the  north-west  between  6i°  and  64"  N.  (50) 

His  OWNE  .''APPiR  &  discourses  drawne  and  written  by 
himselfe  ;  '  lii  r.  Hakluyt  in  1582 — No.  124 — said 
would  shoi  'jr  out  in  print.  They  were  then  in 
the  possessioi  "  C;  bv  t's  successor,  William  Worthington  \ 
see  the  Introduction,  v.  '.'  (51) 

The  great  Map  in  his  Maiesties  priuie  Gallerie,  of  which 
Sebastian  Cabot  is  often  therein  called  the  Authour,  and 
his  Pidture  is  therein  drawne ;  which  Purchas  describes 
in  his  Pilgrimes,  No.  188,  iii.  807.  The  words  "often" 
and  "  therein,"  taken  in  connexion  with  the  parallel  passage 
in  which  Purchas  speaks  of  "  The  Map  with  his  pidiure  in 
the  Priuy  Gallery,"  would  seem  to  imply  something  differ- 
ent from  the  1544  map,  No.  39.  It  may  have  been  the 
same  as  the  map  described  as  Nos.  49  or  50.  (52) 

A  map  ordered  by  the  Fuggers,  the  great  commercial 
house  of  Antwerp,  which  is  mentioned  in  the  notes  to 
Haebler,  No.  369,  appears  never  to  have  been  delivered 
by  Cabot.  (53) 

CABOT  (Sebastian)  Tabula  prima.  Del  Almirante. 
Tabvla  secvnda.  (54) 

Two  columns  of  printed  text,  measuring  27  centimetres  wide 
and  55  centimetres  long,  pasted  upon  the  two  sides  of  the  map 
described  above,  No.  39. 

This  text  consists  of  a  series  of  paragraphs,  which  contain  a 
description  of  various  portions  of  the  adjoining  map,  to  which 
reference  is  made  by  means  of  numbers  placed  against  each  para- 
graph to  correspond  with  similar  numbers  engraved  on  the  map. 
Each  description  is  in  Spanish,  followed  by  a  version  of  the  same 
information  in  Latin,  except  at  the  foot  of  the  second  column, 
where  there  are  five  paragraphs,  numbered  18  to  22,  in  Spanish 
not  followed  by  the  Latin.  The  Latin  version  of  numbers  19  to 
22,  however,  is  to  be  found  engraved  upon  the  body  of  the  map, 
together  with  three  additional  Spanish  legends,  only  one  of  which 


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is  accompanied  by  a  Latin  version.  In  the  lower  comers,  out!<ide 
the  map  proper,  are  inserted  two  tables  of  Latin  letterpress,  as 
mentioned  in  the  preceding  description  of  the  map.  No.  39*,  and  in 
greater  detail  below. 

The  type  used  for  printing  the  letterpress  text,  as  just  described, 
was  rearranged,  but  apparently  not  reset,  in  order  to  print  the 
pamphlet  described  in  the  following  entry.  The  style  of  type  used, 
the  length  of  lines  in  which  it  was  set  up,  and  the  fail  that  the 
columns  of  letterpress  are  of  exaflly  the  right  length  to  paste  upon 
the  edges  of  the  map,  make  it  most  probable  that  these  columns 
were  printed  first,  and  that  the  pamphlet  was  afterwards  prepared, 
possibly  to  go  with  copies  of  the  map  when  this  was  sold  in  the 
four  separate  sheets  on  which  it  was  printed,  not  pasted  together. 

CABOT   (Sebastian)     Declaratio  ;  chartae  novae  navi-  / 
gatoriae  domini  /  almirantis.  (55) 

A  small  quarto  pamphlet  of  24.  leaves,  signatures  A-F,  4.  leave 
each,  having  27  lines  on  each  full  page.  Printed  in  Roman  letters. 
No  place,  name  of  printer,  or  year,  but  perhaps  printed  at  Antwerp 
in,  or  shortly  after,  the  year  1544. 

The  only  copy  of  this  pamphlet  now  known  to  bibliographers  ot 
Americana  is  in  a  private  library  in  Brooklyn,  Ne>v  York.  It  as 
not  known  to  modern  students  prior  to  its  appearance  as  No.  9.  i 
the  1895  "Catalogue  of  the  rich  library  of  the  Chateau  de  Lobris 
in  Silesia  .  .  .  sold  at  Munich,  22  April." 

The  text  of  the  trafl  is  headed  :  Declaratio.  Tabulae.  Almlrante. 
Seventeen  numbered  paragraphs  in  Latin  are  followed  by  five  pages 
of  tables,  in  Latin,  with  the  heading  :  Arithmetica  supputatio  seu 
deuisio  parallelorum  (half  page) ;  Gradus  eleuationis  poll  seu  lati- 
tudinis  terrae  (28  paragraphs  on  2  pages)  :  Tabula  climatum 
Arithmeticalis  secundu  grad:  et  mi:  latitud  quo  ad  principia, 
media,  et  finis  eorundem  (one-third  page);  Astrorum  (two  pages). 
The  heading,  Declaratio  etc.,  is  repeated,  followed  by  twenty-two 
numbered  paragraphs  of  Spanish  text,  of  which  numbers  one  to 
seventeen  repeat  the  substance  of  the  seventeen  Latin  paragraphs, 
as  explained  under  the  preceding  title. 

The  title  of  the  pamphlet  :  "  Explanation  of  the  new  sailing  chart 
of  his  Lordship  the  Admiral,"  was  presumably  derived  from  the  first 
paragraph  which  describes  the  discovery  made  by  Columbus  in 
1+92.  (55') 

The  remaining  paragraphs,  or  legends,  contain  accounts  of:  2. 
Espaiiola  and  Cuba j  3.  New  Spain,  or  Mexico;  4.  the  Straits  of 
Magellan ;  5.  the  Malucos  and  the  first  circumnavigation  ;  6. 
Peru;  7.  la  Plata;  8.  the  Bacallaos,  or  Canada;  9.  Iceland} 
10.  Siberia;  11.  12.  18.  North-eastern  Asia  and  the  adjoining 
Ar6lic  seas;  13.  Central  Africa;  14..  Asiatic  India;  15.  the 
Tartars;  16.  Ceylon  and  Sumatra  ;  17.  "  Inscription  of  the  author 
with  certain  reasons  for  the  variation  between  the  compass  needle 


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8.  a  quotation  from  Pliny,  lib.  2,  cap.  (67, 
Kocos  islands;  zo.  21.  22.  East  India 
islands. 

The  legends  which  are  engraved  on  the  face  of  the  map  and  are 
not  reprinted  in  the  pamphlet  relate  to  Ciapangii  or  Japan,  "of  thefish 
which  stops  a  ship,"  and  the  title  legend  quoted  in  full  above,  No.  39. 

The  Latin  legends  which  accompanied  the  map  of  154+  were 
apparently  reprinted  in  London  by  Clement  Adams,  perhaps  in 
1549, — see  notes  under  No.  39.  A  copy  of  this  edition  may  have 
been  seen  at  Oxford  by  CnYTRiT-US,  No.  75,  who  transcribed  the 
legends,  in  which  the  date  1549  replaces  1544  in  legend  17.  This 
text  as  printed  by  Chytraeus  follows  that  of  the  Latin  legends  on 
the  Paris  map,  except  that  each  paragraph  has  a  heading  or  descrip- 
tive title,  and  that  there  is  a  Latin  version  of  the  Ciapangu-Japan 
legend,  which  occurs  only  in  Spanish  engraved  on  the  face  of  the 
map,  and  of  legend  18,  with  the  correal  reference  to  the  chapter  in 
Pliny  from  which  it  is  taken.  There  are  also  variations  in  spelling 
and  phraseology,  such  as  might  naturally  be  made  by  a  copyist: 
such  of  these  as  occur  in  legend  8  are  noted  below.  The  date  1549 
— which  might  have  been  altered  by  a  misreading,  a  blurred  type, 
a  slip  of  the  transcriber's  pen,  or  a  misprint  in  the  reprinting — is 
partially  confirmed  by  a  marginal  note  in  Purchas,  Pilgrimage, 
1625,  iii.  807  :  "This  Map,  some  say,  was  taken  out  of  Sir  Seb. 
Cabot's  Map  by  Clem.  Adams  in  1549  ";  see  No.  49.  {SS^) 

Hakluyt,  as  explained  in  the  notes  to  No.  39'',  examined  several 
copies  of  a  Cabot  map  "sett  out"  or  "cut"  by  Clement  Adams, 
from  which  he  copied  a  variant  text  of  legend  8.  This  text,  as 
printed  by  Hakluyt  in  1589,  No.  125,  and  in  1600,  No.  126,  differs 
entirely  from  that  of  the  Paris  map  and  from  that  copied  by 
Chytraeus,  although  it  contains  identical  information.  No  plausible 
reason  has  been  suggested  to  explain  why  Adams  should  have  taken 
the  trouble  to  make  a  new  translation,  when  he  must  in  all  prob- 
ability have  possessed  a  copy  of  the  legend  as  already  printed.  There 
was  as  little  reason  why  Hakluyt,  who  might  have  introduced 
changes  similar  to  those  ascribed  to  Chytrsus,  should  have  re- 
written the  entire  paragraph.  The  difficulties  of  explanation  are  in- 
creased by  the  introduction  of  such  dubious  phrases  as  "  credo  "  and 
"  hac  opinor  ratione,"  where  the  Paris  and  Chytraeus  texts  are  ex- 
plicit. Mr.  Harrisse  is  of  the  opinion  that  "  the  diff"erences  in  the 
wording  ...  do  not  prove  the  existence  of  a  third  edition  ot 
Cabot's  planisphere.  They  simply  indicate  a  gratuitous  manipula- 
tion by  Hakluyt  of  Adams'  text."  There  are  quite  as  strong  reasons 
for  the  opinion  that  an  edition  of  a  map  showing  Cabot's  North 
Atlantic  discoveries  was  set  forth  by  Adams,  on  which  was  printed 
the  legend  quoted  by  Hakluyt.     See  the  notes  to  Nos.  49,  50,  and 

5^-  (55'!') 

Hakluyt  in  1600  reprinted  this  Clement  Adams  legend,  chang- 
ing the  date  of  the  discovery  from  1494  to  1497.  Such  a  change 
might  naturally  have  been  made  by  him  on  the  basis  of  the  informa- 


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tion,  showing  the  later  date  to  be  the  correct  one,  which  he  is  k>  vn 
to  have  acHiuired  in  the  interval  between  1589  and  1600.  Purcl;as, 
however,  in  1625  states  speiifiially  that  Cabot's  map  in  the  Privy 
Gallery  "  hath  1497."  From  these  tatSls,  Mr.  Harrisse  decides  that 
Adams  first  printed  the  legends  with  the  date  14.94 copied  from  the 
1544  edition  ;  that  he  afterwards,  perhaps  from  Cabot,  learned  that 
this  was  a  mistake  ;  and  that  he  then  reprinted  the  column  contain- 
ing the  corrected  date  1497,  substituting  this  on  all  unsold  copies  of 
the  map.  The  change,  it  may  be  noted,  occurs  in  the  text  quoted 
by  Hakluyt.  It  is  extremely  probable  that  if  this  altered  date  appeared 
in  the  legends  attached  to  some  copies  of  the  map  as  now  known, 
the  alteration  was  made  with  pen  and  ink.  (SS^) 

To  summarizes  two  1544  editions  of  the  Cabot  map  legends,  in 
Latin  and  Spanish,  have  been  described  from  existing  copies.  In 
addition,  it  is  probable  that  an  edition  of  the  Latin  legends  was 
printed  in  London  in  1 549,  and  these  may  also  have  appeared  in 
some  other  form,  of  which  the  Adams-Hakluyt  text  was  apart.  In 
1594,  1599,  '^"'^  1606,  the  1549  Latin  edition  was  reprinted  l)y 
CHYTRii-us,  No.  75.  In  163J,  De  Laet,  No.  154,  reprinted  the 
Adams-Hakluyt  text,  and  this  was  republished  by  him  in  a  French 
version  in  1640. 

The  legends  were  not  again  printed  until  after  the  recovery  of  the 
Paris  map  in  1843.  M.  Jomard  intended  to  reprint  them,  to  ac- 
company his  facsimile  of  the  map,  No.  39 '.  This  purpose  is  said  to 
have  been  carried  out  by  his  son-in-law,  M.  Bosselli,  some  time  after 
the  death  of  M.  Jomard, — a  lithographic  facsimile  of  the  legends 
being  issued  in  a  limited  edition  for  private  circulation.  The 
officials  of  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale  state  that  no  copy  of  such  a 
reprint  can  be  found  in  that  library.  {SS'^) 

A  careful  transcript  of  the  legends  from  the  Paris  mup  was  made 
for  Mr.  Charles  Deane,  and  this  was  printed  by  Mr.  C.  C.  Smith, 
together  with  a  translation  by  Mr.  George  Bendelari,  in  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  12  February,  1891, 
new  series,  vi.  305-339.  Twenty  copies  of  these  pages  were  separ- 
ately issued  with  a  special  cover  title,  for  private  distribution.  This 
transcriptionof  the  legends, togetherwith  Mr.  Bendelari'stranslation, 
was  reprinted  by  Dr.  Dawson  in  Brymner,  Report  on  Canadian 
Arc/ii-ves,  1897, — Otta-iva,  1898,  106-125.  (S5') 

The  English  version  in  Beazley,  No.  256,  pp.  222-244,  is 
based  upon  that  of  Bendelari,  although  carefully  compared  with 
the  original  texts. 

The  accuracy  of  the  statement  which  declares  that  Sebastian 
Cabot  drew  the  map,  and  by  an  inevitable  inference  wrote  the 
accompanying  legends,  has  been  doubted  by  most  of  those  best 
qualified  to  judge  ot  its  truth.  Those  who  attack  the  personal 
charafter  and  the  scientific  reputation  of  Cabot,  and  those  who 
maintain  his  right  to  eminence,  are  equally  anxious  to  dissociate 
him  from  any  responsibility  for  the  cartography  and  the  geography 
of  this  document. 


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Sebastian  Cabot,  during  the  years  when  this  map  and  the  text 
of  the  legends  which  form  an  integral  part  of  it,  were  composed, 
resided  in  Spain.  As  stated  in  the  notes  to  No.  39,  it  is  supposed 
that  these  were  printed  in  the  Low  Countries.  Whether  composed 
by  Cabot  with  his  own  hand,  or,  as  is  i,Mite  as  likely,  by  someone 
working  in  collaboration  with  him.  the  draft  of  the  map  and  of 
the  legends  must  have  been  sent  m  manuscript  to  the  place  of 
printing.  A  comparative  examination  of  the  Spanish  and  the 
Latin  texts  shows  that  they  were  probably  composed  in  Spanish 
and  afterwards  translated  into  Latin,  most  probably  at  the  place  ot 
printing,  for  the  sake  of  rendering  them  more  intelligible  to  a  wider 
circle  of  European  readers.  The  translator  made  some  changes 
and  a  few  additions,  the  nature  of  which  is  shown  by  the  extrafts 
given  below,  where  the  words  which  occur  only  in  the  Latin  are 
ijuoted  in  that  language.  For  the  most  part,  these  variations  are 
such  as  might  naturally  be  made  by  anyone  translating  freely  and 
possessing  a  slight  acquaintance  with  the  subjeft.  One  addition  of 
very  curious  importance  occurs  in  legend  8,  where  the  Latin  states 
that  Cabot  made  the  landfall  at  Bacallaos  "  at  five  o'clock  in  the 
morning."  The  Spanish  reads  "in  the  morning."  Unless  the 
translator  had  some  source  of  information  of  which  he  gives  no 
hint,  he  must  have  introduced  this  hour  as  one  which  seemed  to 
him  probable,  or  perhaps,  as  the  diftionary  interpretation  of  the 
Spanish  "  early  morning." 

A  manuscript  copy  of  the  twenty-two  Spanish  legends  which 
appear  in  the  letterpress  at  the  sides  of  the  Paris  map,  exists  in  the 
Royal  Library  at  Madrid.  It  is  in  a  volume  apparently  containing 
transcripts  of  geographical  information,  these  legends  being  pre- 
ceded by  the  narrative  of  his  third  voyage  written  by  Columbus. 
The  page  of  contents  refers  to  these  legends  as : 

Declaratio  chartse  nauigatoriae  Domini  Almirantis. 

Tiene  vn  tratado  de  la  Carta  de  nauegar,  hecho  por  el  Doilor 
Grajales,  en  el  Puerto  de  Samfla  Maria,  i  el  vso  de  dos  Tablas, 
para  saber  el  orto  del  Sol,  i  los  ocasos  desde  cl  altura  de.  38.  grados, 
hasta  la  de.  48.  por  el  mismo.  (56) 

Mr.  Harrisse,  to  whom  the  publication  of  these  fafts  is  due,  in 
his  Disco'very,  640-641,  does  not  state  whether  the  last  clause  in 
this  title  refers  to  the  two  tables  which  were  reprinted  in  the 
pamphlet  legends.  No.  55,  from  the  lower  corners  of  the  engraved 
map,  or  whether  this  refers  to  something  which  has  no  conne61ion 
with  the  map  or  legends,  but  which  was  also  transcribed  into  the 
manuscript  volume  The  fail  that  only  the  twenty-two  printed 
legends,  not  including  those  engraved  on  the  face  of  the  map, 
appear  in  this  manuscript,  suggests  that  this  was  transcribed  from 
the  printed  text.  There  is  nothing  to  show  the  authority  upon 
which  their  authorship  was  ascribed  to  Dr.  Grajales,  a  person  of 
whom  nothing  else  has  yet  been  made  known.     This  authorship. 


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however,  is  made  more  probable  by  an  entry  in  Leon  Pinei.o, 
Biblioteca,  No.  436,  pp.  144-145  : 

D.  Chrixtoval  Colon.  Declaracion  tie  la  tabla  navigatoria.  Hul- 
lase  este  breve  tratado  impresso  con  su  carta,  que  (jiieda  pucNta. 

D06I.  Grajales.  Del  uso  de  la  carta  dc  navcgar,  imp.  con  el  reterido 
tratado  de  Colo.  (S^a) 

As  stated  above,  No.  55',  the  fa£l  that  the  first  legend  treated  of 
Columbus  seems  to  have  misled  those  whose  hasty  glance  read  no 
further,  into  the  supposition  that  the  Admiral  was  entitled  to  the 
whole  of  this  work.  Moreover,  despite  the  specific  and  repeated 
statements  of  Leon  Pinelo,  that  this  work  was  printed  in  Spanish, 
no  one  accustomed  to  the  critical  use  of  bibliographic  manuals 
would  assume  that  the  reference  quoted  above  was  not  taken  from 
the  manuscript  now  in  Madrid,  No.  56,  or  that  the  latter  was  not 
transcribed  from  the  pamphlet  or  map  known  lu  hive  been  printed. 
The  statement  that  they  were  written — "hecho"  implies  author- 
ship— by  Doilor  Grajales  remains  unsupported  by  confirmatory 
proof,  but  there  are  no  sufficient  reasons  for  doubting  its  truth. 

WiNSOR,  Controversies,  No.  571,  p.  13,  and  Dawson,  No.  •519, 
p.  107,  refuse  to  accept  this  proof  of  authorship,  as  maintained 
by  Harrisse,  and  suggest  that  Grajales  may  have  possessed  merely 
a  copy  of  the  map  or  the  pamphlet  legends  from  which  this 
transcript  was  made. 

Legends  1-8,  and  perhaps  14,  refer  to  the  regions  which  had 
been  added  to  the  known  world  within  the  lifetime  of  Sebastian 
Cabot.  They  represent  what  was  presumably  known  regarding 
these  regions  by  well-informed  persons  in  a  position  to  secure 
information  concerning  the  progress  of  exploration.  The  other 
paragraphs,  excepting  No.  17,  contain  the  current  ideas  held  by 
these  same  persons  regarding  the  half-known  older  world,  which  is 
popularly  associated  with  the  travels  of  Marco  Polo,  Sir  John 
Mandeville,  and  Adam  of  Bremen.  Harrisse,  Cabot,  287,  follow- 
ing Kohl,  remarks  that  these  descriptions  are  full  of  legendary 
stories  about  sea  monsters,  people  with  one  foot  or  one  eye,  men 
with  faces  like  dogs,  speftres  or  ghosts  speaking  in  the  air,  and 
much  more  of  the  same  sort.  It  should  be  added  that  in  each  case 
these  statements  are  given  as  hearsay.  The  authority  for  them 
existed  in  the  most  trustworthy  works  that  had  then  been  published 
in  regard  to  the  regions  in  question. 

Legeno  8  contains  the  very  important  statement,  apparently 
made  by  Sebastian  Cabot,  that  the  country  of  Bacallaos,  the  present 
Canadian  Atlantic  seaboard,  was  discovered  by  John  Cabot  and  his 
son  Sebastian  on  the  morning  of  24  June  (July)  1494  (at  the  fifth 
hour,  abou  daybreak);  that  the  point  of  landfall  was  named 
"  first  land  si  n  "  ;  and  that  a  large  island  lying  off  this  point  was 
named  St.  Johns  because  it  was  also  discovered  on  that  saint's  day : 
Esta  tierra  fue  d''scubierta  por  loan  Caboto  Veneciano,  y  Sebastian 
Caboto  su  hijo,  anno  del  nascimiento  de  nuestro  Saluador  lesu 
Christo  de    M.cccc.xciiii.  a   ueinte   y  quatro  de    lunio    por   la 


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mannana,  a  la  qual  pusieron  nobre  prima  tierra  uista,  y  a  una  isla 
grfidc  que  esta  par  de  la  dha  tierra,  le  iiusieron  nombre  sant  loan, 
por  auer  siilo  dt-scubierta  el  mismo  dia  :  Terram  hanc  olim  nobis 
clausam,  apt-ruit  Iiannes  Cabotus  Venetus,  necno  Sebastiaiuis 
Cabotiis  eius  filirs,  anno  ab  orbe  redempto  1494.  die  uero  24.  lulij, 
iiora  5.  sub  dil'iculo,  qiifi  terrji  primu  uisam  appellarut,  &  Insula 
quandii  inagnii  ei  opposita,  Insula  diui  loannis  nominarQt,  quippe 
q'.ia?  so'enni  d.e  festo  diui  loannis  aptrta  fuit.  (SS') 

The  parailjl  passage  quoted  by  Hakluyt — see  No.  55^ — reads: 
Anno  Domini  1494,  loannes  Cabotus  venetus,  &  Sebastianus  illiiis 
Hlius  ram  terram  tccerunt  peruiam,  quam  nuUus  prius  adire  auMis 
tuisse',  die  24  lunij,  circiter  horam  quintam  bene  mane.  Haiic 
autem  appellauit  Terram  Primiim  visam,  credo  quod  ex  mari  in 
f..;in  partem  primiim  oculos  iniecerat.  Nam  quse  ex  aduerso  sita 
est  insula,  earn  appellauit  insulam  D.  loannis,  hac  opinor  ratione, 
quod  aperta  fuit  eo  die  qui  est  sacer  D.  loanni  Baptistae.  (55^) 

Dawson,  in  his  Latest  P/mses,  suggests  that  the  omission  of  the 
qualifying  "  grande  "  in  this  Hakluyt-Adams  text,  was  probably  a 
result  of  Adams'  intercourse  with  Cabot,  who  informed  him  that 
the  island  of  St.  John  on  the  engraved  map  of  1544  was  one  of  the 
group  now  named  the  Magdalen  islands,  and  that  the  island  dis- 
covered on  ihe  same  day  as  the  landfall — Scatari  island  off  Cape 
Breton,  in  Dr.  Dawson's  opinion — was  not  "  large." 

The  eighth  legend  as  copied  by  CHYTRi^us  at  Oxford  agrees 
with  the  Latin  text  from  the  Paris  map,  except  for  the  spellings 
/oA«««w,  insulam  .  .  .  ei  fl/>/>o/zVa»7,  and  the  date,  anno  .  .  .  1594. 
.lie  vero  24.  lunii.  (S5*) 

De  Laet,  on  the  other  hand,  in  1633  followed  Hakluyt,  No. 
•;S^>  in  general,  except  for  the  readings  :  Anno  Domini  cIdcccc 
xcvii  .  .  .  die  XXIV  lulii  .  .  .  appellavit  Insulam  .  .  .  quod 
int'enta  fuit  eo  die,  qui  sacer  est  S.  loanni  Baptistae.  These  varia- 
tions are  such  as  may  reasonably  be  ascribed  to  a  copyist.         (55') 

Hakluyt  in  1600  reprinted  No.  55',  changing  the  date  149410 
1497.  PuRCHAS  in  1613  and  1625  stated  that  "the  Map  ...  in 
the  Priuy  Gallery  hath  1497."  As  suggested  above,  this  change  is 
one  that  may  easily  have  been  made  in  manuscript  upon  the  printed 
sheet. 

Gilbert,  No.  117,  apparently  found  the  date  11  June  upon  one 
of  Cabot's  charts,  but  this  was  probably  either  a  manuscript  map 
or  a  printed  map  quite  different  from  No.  39. — See  Nos.  48  and 

52- 

The  words  "  prima  tierra  uista  "  appear  on  the  Paris  map  against 
what  is  clearly  intended  to  represent  the  north-eastern  point  of  Cape 
Breton  island.  This  evidence,  which  would  apparently  determine 
the  exaft  point,  and  the  time,  of  the  Cabot  landfall  on  North 
America,  is  not  accepted  by  many  who  have  examined  the  evidence 
in  its  various  aspefts.  See  the  Introduftion,  pp.  xx.  Mr. 
Harrisse,  in  his  Cabot,  122-124,  ^^en  goes  so  far  as  to  suggest  the 


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motives  which  led  Cabot  deliberately  to  place  these  words  indicatiiiij 
a  landfall  in  the  region  to  which  French  enterprise  had  given 
potential  importance,  as  "  a  suggestion  of  British  claims  and  a  bid 
for  the  King  of  England's  favor."  Dr.  Dawson,  especially  in  his 
Latest  Phases,  replies  to  Harrisse,  arguing  with  much  force  in  favor 
(if  the  evidence  ot  the  map. 

Legend  8  describes  the  country  discovered  by  the  Cabots  as  a 
very  sterile  land,  where  the  people  dressed  in  the  skins  of  animals 
and  fought  with  bows  and  arrows,  lances,  darts,  wooden  clubs,  and 
slings.  The  animals  included  white  bears,  (lions)  and  large  stags 
like  horses.  There  were  quantities  of  fish,  sturgeons,  salmon, 
soles  a  yard  long,  and  especially  codfish,  or  baccallaos  as  they  were 
commonly  called.  For  birds,  there  were  hawks  as  black  as  crows, 
eagles,  partridges,  and  linnets  :  la  gente  della  andan  uestidos  de 
pieles  lie  animales,  usan  en  sus  guerras  arcos,  y  flechas,  lancas,  y 
dardos,  y  unas  porras  de  palo,  y  hondas.  Es  tierra  muy  steril,  ay 
en  ella  [leonibus]  muclios  orsos  plancos,  ycieruosmuy  grfides  como 
cauallos,  y  otras  muchas  animales,  y  semeiantemete  ay  pescado 
infinito,  sollos,  salmoes,  lenguados,  muy  grandes  de  uara  enlargo 
y  otras  muchas  diuersidadesde  pescados,  y  la  mayor  multittid  dellos 
se  dizen  baccallaos  (q,  uulgus  Bacallios  appellat)  y  asl  mismo  ay  en 
la  dha  tierra  Halcones  piietos  como  cueruos  Aguillas,  Perdices  ((^ 
susco  colore)  I'  irdillas,  y  otras  muchas  aues  de  diuersas  maneras. 

(55") 
Compare  this  description  with  what  was   written  in   14.97  by 
Pasqualigo,  No.  185,  and  by  Raimondo,  Nos.  191,  192;  and 
also  with  Martyr,  No.  160,  and  Ramusio,  No.  194. 

Legend  7  contains  an  account  of  the  re-discovery  of  La  Plata  by 
Sebastian  Cabot,  whom  the  Latin  text  describes  as  *'  naiiigandi  arte 
astrorumq,  peritissimus,"  there  being  nothing  in  the  Spanish  to 
suggest  this  eulogy.  It  tells  how,  the  Emperor  having  placed  him 
in  command  of  a  fleet  for  the  discovery  of  Tarsis,  Ophir  (Ciapangu), 
and  the  Eastern  Cathay,  he  was  carried  to  that  river  by  the  fortune 
which  wrecked  his  best  ship,  procellosis  obruta  fluftibus.  Seeing 
that  it  was  impo-^sible  to  continue  the  voyage  as  originally  planned, 
he  decided  to  employ  his  surviving  resources  in  exploring  the  river, 
because  the  natives  reported  that  there  was  much  gold  and  silver  in 
the  country  :  uista  la  grandissima  relacion  que  los  Indios  de  la 
tierra  le  dieron  de  la  gradissima  riqueza  de  oro  y  plata  qui;  en  la  dha 
tierra  auia.  At  the  cost  of  much  dangerous  toil  and  liunger,  he 
established  the  people  whom  he  had  brought  from  Spain  in  several 
settlements  near  the  river :  cerca  del  dicho  rio  algunas  poblacioes  dela 
gete  q  lleuo  de  espaiia ;  motus  ducere  colonias  coepit,  prope  flume 
nonullus  arces  ac  propugnacula  condere  diligSter  curaiiit,  quibus 
Hispani  incolae  facile  tuerenter,  &  uim  hostiu  Indoru  inde  pro- 
pelleret.  The  very  large  river  is  described  as  being  twenty-five 
leagues  wide  at  its  mouth,  and  two  leagues  wide  at  three  hundred 
leagues  up  from  the  mouth,  being  fed  by  many  large  tributaries.  It 
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fertility  of  the  soil,  the  colonists  planted  fifty-two  grains  of  wheat, 
which  was  all  the  ships'  stores  contained,  in  September,  and  in 
December  they  gathered  fifty  and  two  thousand  grains  :  la  gete  en 
liegado  aqlia  tierra  quiso  conoscer  si  era  fertil,  y  apareiada  para  labrar 
y  lieuar  pan  y  senbraron  en  el  mes  de  setiembre  lii.  granos  de  trigo 
q  no  se  hallo  mas  en  las  naos,  y  cogiero  luego  en  el  mes  de  deziembre 
cinqueta,  y  dos  mill  granos  de  trigo,  q  esta  misma  fertilidad  se  hallo 
en  todas  las  otras  semillas  j  colle6lis  quinquaginta  duobus  tritici 
granis  .  .  .  Decembri  iiero  duo  millia  supra  quinquaginta  mensuit. 
See  Eden,  No.  96,  where  he  says  that  Cabot  told  him  that  this 
meant  2,050,  rather  than  52,000.  The  natives  of  the  country  gave 
the  Spaniards  to  understand  that  not  far  in  the  interior  there  were 
some  great  mountain  ranges  from  which  no  end  of  gold  was  obtained 
and  an  equal  amount  of  silver,  further  on  :  Los  q  en  aquelia  tierra 
blue  dizen  que  no  lexos  de  ay  en  la  tierra  adentro  q  ay  unas  grades 
sierras  de  donde  sacan  infinitissimo  oro,  y  q  mas  adelante  en  las 
mismas  sierras,  sacan  infinita  plata.  In  this  land  r*  sort  of  sheep 
grow  to  be  as  big  as  asses,  shaped  like  camels,  and  yielding  a  wool 
as  fine  as  silk.  The  natives  otthe  mountain  slopes  were  said  to  be 
as  white  as  the  Spaniards,  but  those  living  near  the  river  were  dark. 
Some  say  that  in  the  mountains  [this  qualification  is  omitted  in  the 
Latin]  there  are  men  with  faces  like  dogs,  and  others  resemble 
ostriches  from  their  knees  down,  and  they  say  that  these  are  great 
workers,  raising  much  maize  for  making  br^ad  and  wine.  The 
Latin  text  differs  from  the  Spanish  in  the  order  of  arrangement  of 
the  different  statements,  but  except  as  noted  everything  is  repeated 
in  much  the  same  sense.  (S5^) 

Legend  17  explains  the  method  by  which  the  variation  of  the 
compass  needle  might,  as  Cabot  supposed.,  be  utilized  for  the  pur- 
poses of  navigation.  It  is  translated,  with  an  interpretation  of  its 
difficulties,  by  Harrisse,  Cabot,  309-310,  and  by  Bendelari  and 
Beazley,  as  noted  under  No.  55^.  Another  English  translation, 
by  Major,  is  in  Archaologia,  1870,  xliii.  18-19.  ^^^  Latin  text 
was  reprinted  from  CHYTR.ff.us  by  Bertius,  Tabularum  Geog. 
Contradarum,  p.  632  in  1600  edition,  and  p.  777  in  1616  edition. 
For  a  French  translation  see  p,  777  of  the  French  edition  of 
Bertius,  1618.  (55") 

Cabot  in  1 54.7  issued  a  power  of  attorney  to  Diego  Gutierrez, 
empowering  him  to  aft  as  Pilot  Major  during  his  chief's  absence 
from  Spain — Harrisse,  Discovery,  708.  (57) 

CABOT  (Sebastian)  Ordinance?,  instructions,  and  ad- 
uertisements  of  and  for  the  diredlion  of  the  intended 
voyage  for  Cathay,  compiled,  made,  and  deliuered  by  the 
right  worshipfull  M.  Sebastian  Cabota  Esquier  g^ouernour 
of  the  mysterie  and  companie  of  the  Marchants  aduen- 
turers  for  the  discouerie  of  Regions,  Dominions,  Islands 


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and  places  vnknowen,  the  9.  day  of  May,  in  the  yere  of 
our  Lord  God  1553.  and  in  the  7.  yeere  of  the  reigne  of 
our  most  dread  soueraigne  Lord  Edward  the  6  .  .  .    (58) 

Printed  in  Hakluyt,  Voyages,  i.  226-230;  reprinted  in  Pinker- 
TON,  Voyages,  i.  1-17;  and,  witii  unimportant  omissions,  in  Beaz- 
LEY,  No.  256,  pp.  186-195. 

Harrisse,  Cabot,  34.5,  states  that  some  of  the  most  creditable 
passages  in  these  instruftions,  which  Cabot  prepared  for  the  guidance 
of  the  expedition  under  Willoughby  and  Chancelor,  were  copied 
from  the  inst;  actions  given  to  Cabot  by  the  Council  lor  the  Indies 
upon  his  departure  for  La  Plata  in  1523.  This  latter  document  is 
only  known  through  a  reference,  with  possibly  a  short  quotation, 
in  Martyr,  No.  161,  dec.  vii.  cap.  vi. 

The  first  paragraph,  with  its  warning  against  "dissention, 
variance,  or  contention  .  .  .  for  that  dissention  (by  many  ex- 
periences) hath  ouerthrown  many  notable  intended  and  likely 
enterprises  and  exploits,"  inevitably  suggests  Cabot's  La  Plata 
adventure. 

CABOT    (Cebastian)      [Letter   to    Charles    V. — London 
15  November  1554  (1553).  (59) 

A  contemporary  transcript,  enclosed  in  a  letter  from  the  Emperor 
to  his  son  Philip,  No.  72,  is  in  the  State  Archives  at  Simancas, 
Correspondencia  de  Inglaterra,  Legajo  818. 

Printed  in  the  Coleccion  de  Documentos  Ineditos  para  la  Historiade 
Espana, — Madrid,  184.3,  '•'•  512-514.  Also  in  the  Bulletin  Geog. 
historique  et  descrip., — Paris,  1890,  i.  25-27.  Translated  by  Beaz- 
LEY,  No.  256,  197-200.  In  this  letter  to  his  former  master, 
Cabot  explains  that  a  fever,  calenturas  cotidianas,  obliged  him  to 
entrust  to  Francisco  de  Urista  an  important  message  concerning 
certain  designs  of  the  French  ambassador  in  England,  Beau- 
dauphin  (Bodofin)  and  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  (Nortabelan), 
who  had  consulted  him  on  several  occasions  regarding  the  Spanish 
forces  in  Peru  and  the  reputed  wealth  of  that  country,  which  these 
lords  were  planning  to  attack  by  means  of  an  expedition  ascending 
the  Amazon.  Cabot  adds  that  ht  is  so  weak  that  a  journty  to  the 
Imperial  court  would  certainly  kill  him. 

Urista  also  carried  to  the  king,  besides  this  letter,  a  map  de- 
scribed above  as  No.  43.  Cabot  writes  that  this  explained  a  possible 
means  for  preventing  the  King  of  Portugal  from  establishing  any 
claim  to  the  coast  of  Guinea  (Guiana  ?)  as  lying  on  his  side  of  the 
line  of  demarcation,  by  the  aid  of  the  variation  or  the  compass 
needle:  Y  tocante  al  situar  de  la  costa  de  Guinea  contorme  ii  la 
variacion  que  hace  la  aguja  de  marear  con  el  polo,  si  el  Rey  de 
Portugal  cayere  en  ello,  el  remcdio  ya  lo  dije  li  V.  M.  Cabot 
explains  that  he  had  previously  written  an  account  of  this  map, 
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England,  who  had  forwarded  it  to  the  Emperor's  secretary,  Eravo. 
This  writing  referred  especially  to  the  demarcation  of  the  Spanish 
and  Portuguese  possessions.  (59^) 

This  letter  from  Cabot  was  apparently  written  in  response  to  the 
one  written   by  the  Emperor  to  Queen   Mary,  on  9  Septembt  r, 


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la  declinacion  q  el  sol  tiene  de  la  Equinocial.  (60) 

See  Sant.^  Cruz,  No.  207,  for  the  manuscript  work,  preserved 
at  Madrid,  in  which  he  describes  *'  the  method  of  Sebastian  Cabot 
in  England  for  obtaining:  the  longitude  [at  sea]  as  communicated  by 
a  certain  person"  to  Philip  II.  It  is  translated  by  Harrisse, 
Cabot,  302-305,  with  critical  comments. 

CABOT  (Sebastian) — Portrait.  —  Effigies.  Sebastiani 
Caboti  Aiigli.  Filii.  Johanis  Caboti.  Vene  ti.  Militis 
Avrati.  Primi.  invet  oris.  Teniae  nova  sub  Herico  VII. 
Ang!  Jae  Rege.  (61) 

The  inscription  on  an  oil  painted  portrait,  which  was  perhaps 
the  same  as  one  described  by  PuRCHAs,  Pilgrimes,  iv.  1812.  as 
seen  by  him  before  1625  '"  "  the  privie  gallerie  at  White  Hall." 

In  1792  this  picture  hung  in  the  breakfast-room  of  Slains 
Castle,  near  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  the  home  of  Lord  Errol.  Atter 
his  Lordship's  death,  it  was  presented  by  his  representatives,  through 
Sir  Frederick  Eden,  to  Mr.  Charles  Joseph  Harford  of  BristoJ, 
England.  Mr.  Harford's  successor  sold  the  portrait,  for  ^f  500,  to 
Mr.  Richard  Biddle,  who  afterwards  offered  to  restore  it  to  Bri  tol 
if  reimbursed  the  sum  he  had  given  for  it.  Mr.  Biddle  removed 
the  portrait  to  his  home  in  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  it  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  184.5. — Adapted  from  Mathews,  No.  4.56. 
Compare  Mr.  Biddle's  account  of  the  eariy  history  of  the  portrait, 
especially  for  the  probable  dispersio'>  .  iie  Whitehall  gallery 
during  the  early  Commciiwealth  peri^  ',  '  his  Memoir,  No.  261, 
PP-  ■?'7-3'9.  See  the  note  to  Georgl,  Ao.  365.  The  Pittsburg 
conflagration  was  described  by  J.  Hepon  Foster  : 

A  full  account  of  the  Great  Fire  at  Pittsburg,  on  the  loth  of 
April,  184.5 — Pittsburg,  1845.     ^^o.  (62) 

Three  copies  of  the  portrait  were  made  before  its  loss,  by  John 
G.  Chapman  for  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  for  the  New 
York  Historical  Society,  and  for  the  Mayor  and  Corporation  of 
Bristol,  England.  See  the  Proceedings  of  the  first-named  society 
for  March  and  June,  1838,  ii.  loi,  in. 

The  best  engraving  of  the  portrait  was  made  from  the  original 
for  Sever,  Bristol,  No.  522,  ii.  208.  The  plate  from  which  this 
was  printed  is  now  owned  by  Mr.  William  George — see  No.  365. 
There  are  copies  in  a  large  proportion  of  the  books  and  illustrated 
magazine  articles  devoted  to  the  Cabots. 


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This  portrait  was  commonly  reputed  to  be  by  Holbein,  u.itil  a 
study  of  that  painter's  career  showed  that  he  had  probably  been 
dead  for  several  years  before  it  could  have  been  painted — see  note 
to  Appleton,  No.  237,  and  Nicholls,  No.  468.  The  inscrip- 
tion quoted  above  is  interesting  because  it  links  the  names  ot  father 
and  son,  but  the  clumsy  Latin  does  not  clearly  express  which  was 
the  knight  or  which  the  discoverer.  There  is  no  other  evidence, 
except  PuRCHAs'  "  Sir  Sebastian  Cabot,"  in  his  Filrr!mes,iv.  1 177, 
that  either  was  ever  knighted.  The  official  entries  of  his  pension 
payments  style  him  "armiger"  or  esquire. 

See  note  to  Burrough,  No.  20. 

The  official  records  which  refer  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  career  in 
Spain  and  in  England  are  arranged  under  Brewer,  Charles  V., 
Edward  VI.,  and  Queen  Marv,  Nos.  i4'>,  66-70,  99-104,  166- 
169. 

CESPEDES  (Andres  Garcia  de)  Regimiento  de  nave- 
gacion  mando  hazer  el  rei  nves  tro  senor  por  ordcn  de  sv 
conseio  real  de  las  indias  a  Andres  Garcia  de  Ces  pedes  sv 
cosmografo  maior — [colophon]  Madrid  M.ncvi.  (63) 

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The  reference  to  a  maj)  given  to  the  Spanish  king  by  "  Sebas- 
tian Caboto  de  nacion  Ingles,  Piloto  bien  conocido  "  is  on  1.  137. 
See  No.  45. 

CHANNING  (Edward)  Documents  describing  the 
voyage  of  John  Cabot  in  1497.  (64) 

American  History  Leaflets  .  .  .  edited  by  Edward  Channing  of 
Harvard  University. — Ne-tv  York,  Lovell,  No.  ix..  May,  1893.  8vo, 
pp.  I -14.  This  leaflet  contains,  in  handy  inexpensive  form,  good 
translations  of  the  important  documents. 

CHAPUYS  (Eustace)  [Letter  to  the  Queen  of  Hun- 
gary— London^  26  May,  1541.  (65) 

Manuscript  in  the  Imperial  Archives  at  Vienna,  Rep.  P.  Fasc. 
C.  232,  fF.  24-27. 

Deciphered  and  translated  in  Gayangos,  Calendar  of  State 
Papers  (^Spanish),  vi.  pt.  i.  325-328. 

The  ambassador  reports  in  this  dispatch  that  "about  two  months 
ago  there  was  a  deliberation  in  the  English  privy  council  as  to  the 
expediency  of  sending  two  ships  to  the  northern  seas  for  the  pur- 
pose of  discovering  a  passage  between  Islandt  and  Engroneland  tor 
the  Northern  regions,  where  it  was  thought  that,  owing  to  the  ex- 
treme cold,  English  woollen  cloths  would  sell  for  a  good  price. 
To  this  end  the  king  retained  here  for  some  time  a  pilot  from 
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undertaking  was  abandoned,  all  owing  to  the  king's  not  choosing 
to  agree  to  the  pilot's  terms.  .  .  ." 

The  note  under  Wyatt,  No.  231,  gives  the  grounds  for  sur- 
mising that  this  Sevillian  pilot  may  have  been  Sebastian  Cabot. 
Beazley,  No.  256,  pp.  163-165,  doubts  the  possibility  of  this 
identification.  It  has  been  suggested  that  Cabot  may  have  sent  an 
agent  to  England,  or  that  he  may  have  instrufted  some  Sevillian 
disciple  in  what  he  knew  of  the  northern  regions. 

CHARLES  V.     Real  cedula  .   .   ,  mandando  se  ccntiniie 

a  la  viuda  de  Am^^ico  Vespucio  la  pension    de    loooo 

maravedis  sobre  el  sueldo  de  Sebastian  Caboto,  que  habia 

sucedido  a  Juan  Diaz  de  Solis  en  el  empleo  de   Piloto 

mayor. — Pamplona,  16  Noviembre,  1523.  (66) 

Manuscript  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies,  at  Seville,  Leg.  no,  i 

c/e  la  Casa  de  la  Contratacioii,  Lib.  1°  de  Toma  de  Raxon  de  Titulos  y 

nombramientos,  1503-1615,  fol.  42 . 

Printed  in  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  iii.  308-309.  The  king,  in 
reply  to  Cabot's  protest  that  he  had  received  no  notice,  when  he 
accepted  the  position,  that  the  pension  of  his  predecessor's  widow, 
and  of  her  sister  after  her  death,  would  be  deduced  from  his  salary 
as  pilot-major,  ordered  that  this  deduflion  should  continue  to  be 
made  in  accordance  with  previous  custom. 

CHARLES  V.     Cedula— r^/^^<p,  25  Oaobre,  1525.      (67) 

Manuscript  copy  in  the  library  of  the  Academia  de  la  Historia, 
at  f/Iadrid,  Muuoz  Tramcripts,  Ixxvii.  I'o     165. 

Print jil  in  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  355. 

This  royal  order  confirms  Cabot's  request  that  25,000  maravedis 
which  he  received  ;.s  gratuity,  in  addition  to  his  salary,  should  be 
paid  to  his  wife,  Catalina  Mcilrano,  during  her  lifetime,  in  case  he 
should  die  during  the  voyage  of  discovery  he  was  about  to  under- 
take "  al  descubrimiento  de  las  islas  de  Tarsis  e  Ofir  e  al  Catayo 
oriental." 

During  the  absence  of  Charles  V.  from  Spain,  the  queen  acting 
us  regent  signed  orders  dire6ling  the  Casa  de  Contratacion  to  pay 
Sebastian  Caboto  certain  sums  on  account  of  his  salary,  which  had 
been  withheld  on  account  of  lawsuits  pending  against  him.  The 
order  for  i .  March,  1531,  called  for  30  gold  dvicats  or  1,250  mara- 
vedis, zv\  stated  as  a  reason  for  the  payment  that  Cabot  had  been 
sick  and  was  without  means  with  which  to  maintain  himself:  esta 
rrcso  e  detvT.ido  en  esta  Nuestra  Corte,  e  que  a  cabsa  de  lo  suso 
dicho  e  de  uber  c>lado  enfermo,  e  thiene  muy  gran  necesidad,  e  non 
thiene  "o.i  qu':'  •.  alimentar  et  seguir  sus  pleytos.  Original  manu- 
scr-ju  in  che  Ai\  hives  of  the  Indies  at  Seville,  Est.  148,  Caj.  2, 
Leg.  1 ;  printed  in  the  Coleccion  de  documrntos  ini'ditos  de  Indias, 
xxxii.  440-1.50.  T;ie  same  references  give  similar  orders  for  pay- 
ments is. lied  11  May,  1531,  and  12  March,  1532.  (^7*) 


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An  order  from  the  queen  directing  the  Casa  de  Coutratacion  to 
pay,  out  of  the  moneys  due  to  Sebastian  Caboto,  thf  amount  of 
the  fines  and  damages  to  which  he  had  been  condemned — see  No. 
37  and  the  Introduftion,  p.  xxxi — is  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies  at 
Seville,  Est.  148,  Caj.  2,  Leg.  1 ;  printed  in  the  Cokccion  de  docu- 
mentos  ini'Jitos  de  Indius,  xxxii.  459-4.61.  {*^7) 

CHARLES  V.     Ccdula,  a  los  contadores  majores — Bruse/as, 
19  Oaubr^,  1548.  (68) 

Manuscript  in  the  Archives  at  Simancas,  Libra  de  Camara,  1 546- 
1548,  fol.  122-123. 

Printed  by  Peres,  in  the  Boletin  Real  Acad.  Historia — Madrid., 
April,  1893,  xxii.  350-351. 

The  king,  on  learning  that  Cabot's  wife  had  died  since  the 
issuance  of  the  cedula  noted  above.  No.  67,  direiled  that  the  25,000 
maravedis  therein  mentioned  should  thenceforth  be  paid  to  Cabot. 

CHARLES  V.     Al  presidente  y  consejeros  de  Indias — Brit- 
selas^  5  Noviembre,  1548.  (69) 

Manuscript  at  Simancas,  found  with  the  preceding  entry. 
Printed  by  Peres,  No.  476. 

This  document  orders  that  Cabot  shall  be  allowed  to  exercise 
the  duties,  and  the  privileges,  of  his  office  as  pilot-major,  and  to 
examine  pilots  and  shipmasters  sailing  to  the  Indies. 

CHARLES  V.     A  los  oficiales  de  la  casa  de  la   Contra- 
tacion  de  las  Indias — Bruselas^  8  Noviembre,  1548.     (70) 

Manuscript  at  Simancas,  with  No.  68.  Likewise  printed  by 
Peres,  No.  476. 

A  confirmation  of  No.  68. 

CHARLES  V.     [Letter  from  the  Emperor  to  Mary  Tudor, 
Queen  of  England — A  Mons  en  Haynnau,  9  septembre, 

1553-  (70 

Printed  by  Cl.  Hopper  in  Notes  ami  Siueries — London,  1862, 
3  ser.,  i.  125 ;  in  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  362-363. 

An  extra6l,  in  English,  is  in  Turnbull,  Calendars  {Foreign), 

i5';:?-i55i^'  '•  10-    . 

This  letter  contains  a  request,  which  the  Emperor  had  instrufted 
his  ambassadors  to  explain  in  detail,  that  "  le  capitaine  Cabote 
cideuant  pilote  de  noz  Royaulmes  despaigne  "  might  be  dismissed 
and  permitted  to  visit  the  Emperor,  who  wished  to  consult  him 
regarding  maritime  affairs:  communiquer  aucuns  affaires  con- 
cernans  la  sheurete  dt;  la  nauigation  de  noz  Royaulmes  et  pays. 
The  Emperor  explains  that  Cabot  had  had  his  permission  to  he 
absent  from  his  service :  de  nostre  gre  et  consentement  sest  puis 
aucunes  annees  passe  en  Angleterre.  See  the  notes  to  Edward  VI., 
No.  102;  Cheyne,  No.  74  j  and  Cabot,  No.  59. 


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CHARLES  V.     [Letter  to  D.  Philip,  the  heir-apparent — 
Bruselas,  16-21  February,  1554.  (72) 

Manuscript  in  the  ardiivcs  at  Simancas,  dorrespondencia  con 
In^Iaterra,  leg.  808. 

Printed  in  the  Coleccion  Do\  I/ie'J.  Hist.  Espana,  Madrid,  1843., 
iii.  508-511. 

This  letter,  covering  a  comirmnii-ation  from  Cahot,  Nt).  59,  in- 
strurts  the  Crown  Prince  to  take  the  necessary  precautions  to  meet 
an  Anglo-Frencii  expedition  against  Pcni. 


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CHAUVE  TON  (Urbain')  Histoire  iiowelie  dv  novveav 
monde,  Coutenant  en  somme  ce  que  Ics  Hcspa-gnols  ont 
fait  iusqu'a  present  aux  indes  Occidentalcs,  Sc  le  rude 
traitement  qu'ils  font  a  ces  poures  peuples-ia.  Extraite 
de  i'italien  de  M.  Hierosme  Benzoni  ...  &  enrichie 
de  plusieurs  Discours  et  choses  digne  de  memoirc.  Par 
M.  Vrbain  Chavveton. — Par  Evstace  Vignon.  m.d.lxxix. 
(Geneve.)  (73) 

8vo.    T  +  18  11  +  PP  1-726. 

La  Historia  del  tnondo  n'vo-vo  di  M.  Girolamo  Benzoni  Milanese 
was  published  in  Fenice,  1565;  reprinted,  Venice,  1572.  In  1578 
M.  Chauveton  edited  it  for  Vignon  of  Geneva,  dividing  the  Italian 
text  into  chapters  and  adding  a  few  notes.  It  was  reprinted, 
Geneua,  1581;  and,  with  further  additions,  in  1586  and  1600. 
Chauveton  also  tra.islated  the  work  into  French,  as  titled  above, 
making  numerous  additions  to  the  notes.  There  are  several  Dutch 
and  German  editions,  from  the  Italian.  Admiral  W.  H.  Smyth 
translated  the  1572  edition  into  English  for  the  Hakluyt  Society, 
London,  1857. 

An  account  of  a  voyage  northward  in  search  of  a  route  to 
v'sihay,  undertaken  in  1507  by  Sebastian  Cabot,  is  on  p.  141. 
The  foreland  of  Bacallaos  was  discovered,  but  the  cold  and  icebergs 
forced  the  expedition  to  turn  back  at  67"  north  :  L'an  m.d.vii.  il  y 
eut  vn  Pilote  Venitien,  nomme  Sebastian  Gabotto,  qui  entreprit 
aux  despens  de  Henry  7.  Roy  d'Augleterre  de  cercher  quelque 
passage  pour  aller  en  Catay  par  la  Tramontane.  Cestuy-la  des- 
couurit  la  pointe  de  Baccalaos  ...  &  plus  haut,  iusqu'a  soixante 
sept  degrez  du  Pole,  mais  le  froid  &  les  gros  glagons,  dont  ceste 
mer  du  North  est  pauee,  le  contraignirent  de  relascher,  &  s'en 
reuenir  sans  rien  faire. —  Som.  de  Pierre  Mart.  This  reference  is 
j)resumably  intended  for  the  S'vmmario  described  under  Ramusio, 
No.  192.  The  nar»-atives  are,  however,  entirely  distinft  ;  Ramusio's 
summary  of  Martyr  gives  the  northern  limit  as  55°,  and  Martyr  in 
his  own  work  gives  no  specific  altitude. 

For  the  date,  see  the  Introdu61ion,  pp.  xvii-xviii. 

This  paragraph  added  by  Chauveton  does  not  appear  in  the 


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editions  which  follow  the  one  as  originally  published  by  Benzoni. 
It  is  in  the  Latin  and  German  editions  in  De  Bry's  "Grands 
Voyages,"  Part  iv.,  Latin,  1593,  p.  69;  German,  1594,  p.  61. 
See  note  under  De  Bry,  p.  40. 

CHEYNE  (Sir  Thomas)  and  HOBY  (Sir  Philip) 
[Dispatch  from  the  English  Ambassadors  to  Charles  V. 
to  the  Privy  Council  in  London — Brussels^  25  November, 

1549-  (74) 

Manuscript  in  the  Britis^h  Museum,  London,  Cotton  MSS.  Galba 
B.  XII.  tol.  1 24. 

Printed  in  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  359. 

This  letter  conveys  a  request  received  through  Antoine  Perrenot, 
Bishop  of  Arras,  the  Emperor's  envoy  in  Flanders  (Ha  rrisse,C«6o/, 
321),  that  Cabot  might  be  sent  back  to  the  Imperial  service,  "for- 
asmuch as  he  cannot  stand  the  king  your  M'.  in  an\  greate 
[stead]  seing  he  hath  smale  praftise  in  these  sees  and  is  a  v[erie] 
necessary  man  for  the  emperour  whose  servaunt  he  is  hath  a  pencion 
of  hym." 

CHYTR-iEUS  (Nathan  Kochhaff,  alias)  Variorvm 
in  Evropa  itinervm  deliciae ;  sev,  ex  variis  ma-nv-scriptis 
seleclio-ra  lantvm  inscri-ptionvm  maxime  recentium  monv- 
menta.  Quibus  passim  in  Italia  et  Germania,  Helvetia  et 
Bohemia,  Dania  et  Cimbria,  Belgio  et  Gallia,  Anglia  et 
Polonia,  &c.  Templa,  arae,  scholae,  bibliothecae,  musera, 
.  .  .  sacella,  sepulchra,  &c.  con-spicua  sunt  .  .  .  Omnia 
nuper  coUedla  &c  hoc  modo  digesta  a  Nathane  Chytraeo. 
— Herborna  Nassouiorum.      1594.  (75) 

i2mo.    T  +  9  11  4-  pp  1-846. 
Reprinted  in  1599  and  1606. 

The  Latin  text  of  the  legends  described  under  Cabot,  No.  55- 
55*  is  on  pp.  773-795  (599-614,  i6o5  edition),  with  the  heading 
Oxoniae. — Svbtabulis  geographicis  sequentes  inscriptiones  leguntur 
quas  non  tarn  propter  latinitatis,  quae  non  magna  est,  elegantiam 
quam    propter   res   ipsas   cognitione   non   indignas    hic   subiicere 
voluimus. 

CONTARINI  (Gasparo)     [Dispatch  from  the  Venetian 

Ambassador  at  the  Court  of  Spain,  to  the  Senate  of  Venice 

— l^alladolid^  31  December,  1522.  (76) 

Manuscript  in  the  Marciana  Library  at  Venice,  It.  CI.  1^11.,  Cod. 

MIX.,  Cart.  281-283. 

Printed  in  Bullo,  No.  290,  pp.  65-66. 

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and  somewhat  abbreviated  in  MarkhaM,  No. +51,  pp.  219-223; 
Beazley,  No.  256,  pp.  143-149. 

In  accordance  with  instruftions  from  Venice,  No.  225,  Contarini 
reports  that  he  had  had  three  interviews  with  Sebastian  Cabot.  He 
found  that  Cabot  was  highly  esteemed  ;  ha  grande  tama.  At  the 
first  interview,  he  handed  Cabot  the  letter  from  the  Ragusan 
Marino  ue  BtrcicNOLO,  upon  reading  which  Cabot  list  colour, 
putting  it  in  his  pocket  with  the  appearance  of  fear  and  uncertainty: 
et  legiendola  si  mosse  tutto  di  colore.  Da  poij  letta,  stete  cussi  un 
pochcto  senza  dirme  altro  quasi  sbigotito  et  dubio.  Having  been 
reassured,  at  their  second  conference  Cabot  stated  that  he  was  born 
in  Venice,  but  brought  up  in  England:  "Signer  Ambassator  per 
dirve  il  tuto  io  naqui  a  Venetia  ma  sum  nutrito  in  Ingelterra." 
About  three  years  previous  [see  note  imder  Drapers'  Company, 
No.  94]  he  had  returned  from  Spain  to  England,  where  Cardinal 
Wolsey  wished  to  place  him  in  command  of  a  fleet  upon  which 
some  30,000  ducats  were  being  expended.  Cabot  had  been  willing 
to  undertake  this  adventure,  but  was  unable  to  do  so  without 
securing  the  Emperor's  permission,  he  being  in  the  Spanish 
service :  la  quale  (armatla)  era  quasi  in  ordine,  et  haveano  pre- 
parati  per  spender  in  essa  ducati  30  ni.  Io  li  risposi  che  essendo 
al  servitio  di  questa  Maesta,  senza  sua  licentia  non  Io  poteva  servire, 
ma  che  havendo  bona  licentia  di  qui  io  el  serviria.  While  in  Eng- 
land, meantime,  Cabot  became  intimate  with  a  Venetian  friar, 
Stragliano  Collona,  who  suggested  to  him  that  he  ought  to  turn 
his  skill  and  knowledge  to  the  benefit  of  his  native  city.  The  friar 
apparently  influenced  him  so  strongly,  when  he  acknowledged  that 
he  knew  of  a  way  by  which  Venice  might  participate  in  these 
navigations,  that  he  probably  spoke  to  the  Venetian  ambassador  in 
England  regarding  the  projeft,  and  also  took  measures  to  prevent 
the  Emperor  from  granting  Wolsey's  request  for  the  loan  of  his 
services :  Io  gia  parlai  a  Io  ambassator  della  lUustrissima  Signoria 
in  Ingelterra  per  la  affeftione  cht  \o  ho  a  la  patria  cum  queste 
terre  novamente  trovate  de  le  quale  io  ho  modo  di  dar  gran  utile  a 
quella  terra.  ...  In  quelli  giorni  (ja  tre  anni)  ragionando  cum  uno 
frate  Stragliano  Collona  veneto  cum  il  quale  havea  amicitia  grande, 
mi  fu  difto  dal  prefato  frate :  Messer  Sebastiano  vui  vi  affaticati 
cussi  grandemente  per  far  beneficio  a  genti  externe  non  vi  ari- 
cordate  della  vostra  terra,  non  seria  possibile  che  etiam  lei  havesse 
qualche  utilita  da  vuj.  Alhora  io  mi  risenti  tutto  nel  core  .  .  .  li 
dissi  che  io  haveva  modo  di  far  quella  Citta  partecipe  di  questa 
navigatione  .  .  .  et  cussi  perche  servendo  el  Re  d'Angeltcrra  non 
poteva  piu  beneficiar  la  patria  mia,  io  scrissi  alia  Maesta  Cesarea 
che  non  me  desse  per  niente  licentia  che  servisse  il  Re  de  Engel- 
terra  perche  li  saria  de  danno  grande,  immo  che  subito  me  rivo- 
casse.  After  returning  to  Venice,  Cabot  formed  a  great  friendship 
for  the  Ragusan,  and  eventually  intrusted  him  with  the  offer  of  his 
services  to  Venice. 

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ing to  allege  as  a  reason  that  Cabot  must  appear  in  Venice  in 
person  in  order  to  secure  the  dowry  ot  iiis  mother.  The  am- 
bassador suggested  some  difficulties  in  the  way  ot"  a  voyage  from 
Venice  to  the  newly-discovered  portions  of  the  globe,  but  Cabot, 
without  explaining  his  scheme,  assured  him  that  it  was  feasible, 
and  could  be  managed  despite  the  control  by  Spain  of  the  Strait  at 
Gibraltar  and  oi  the  German  coast  on  the  North  Sea,  and  the 
impossibility  of  building  ships  on  the  Red  Sea.  Cabot  maintained 
that  there  was  another  way:  Me  rispose  .  .  .  io  so  perche  io  ho 
navigato  tutti  quelli  paesi  et  so  ben  il  tuto,  immo  vi  dico  che  non 
vulsi  tor  il  partido  de  il  Re  de  Engelterra  per  beneficiar  la  patria, 
perche  se  tolleva  quel  partido  non  restava  poi  via  alcun;i  per  Venetia. 
At  their  third  meeting  Cabot  spoke  of  the  method  he  had 
noticed  for  finding  out  the  distance  between  two  places  east  and 
west  of  each  other,  by  means  of  the  compass  needle. 

CONTARINI    (Gasparo)     [Dispatch  to  the   Senate  at 
Venice — Falladolid^  7  March,  1523.  (77) 

Manuscript  in  the  Marciana  Library  at  Venice,  //.  Cl.  FII.^  Cod. 
MIX.,  Cart.  289. 

Printed  and  translated  as  noted  under  No.  76. 

The  ambassador  reports  that  Cabot  had  been  to  see  him  several 
times,  reaffirming  his  desire  to  serve  Venice,  but  explaining  that  he 
could  not  get  away  to  go  to  Italy  for  at  least  three  months,  lest 
the  Spaniards  suspeft  him  ot  a  desire  to  visit  England.  Cabot 
thought  it  desirable  that  a  letter  be  written  him,  asking  him  to 
come  to  Venice  to  expedite  his  private  aff"airs. — See  Marino  de 
BUCIGNOLO,  No.  158. 

CONTARINI  (Casparo)     [Dispatch  to   Andrea  Gritti, 
Doge  of  Venice — ValladoUd.^  26  July,  1523.  (78) 

Manuscript  in  the  Marciana  Library  at  Venice,  //.  Cl.  Vlh,  Cod. 
MIX.,  Cart.  302. 

Printed  and  translated  as  noted  under  No.  76. 

A  report  of  slight  progress  in  the  negotiations  with  Cabot. 

CONTARINI  (Gasparo)     [Report  read  in  the  Senate  at 

Venice.^  16  November,  1525.  (79) 

Manuscript  in  the  State  Archives  at  Turin,  Cod.  r,  a,  b,  x,  i,  c. 

138.. 

Printed  in  Alberi,  No.  3,  ist  Ser.,  ii.  9-73.  The  reference  to 
Cabot,  p.  54,  is  reprinted  from  the  manuscript  in  Berchet,  Raccolta 
Colombiana,  part  iii.  vol.  i.  129. 

In  this  report  of  his  two  years'  mission  in  Spain,  Contarini  states 
that  the  Emperor  had  placed  an  armada  of  five  ships  under  the 
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American  coast,  and,  secondly,  for  a  voyage  to  the  Indies :  perche 
andasse  a  investigare  tutta  quella  costa  primieramente,  poi  che 
andasse  etiam  nell'  Indie. 

CONTARINI  (Marcantonio)  [Report  read  in  the 
Senate  at  Venice,  1536.  (80) 

Manuscript  in  the  Imperial  Library  at  Vienna,  cod.  Foscarini. 

The  paragraph  referring  to  Cabot  is  printed  by  Berchet  in  the 
Raccolta  Colombiana,  part  iii.  vol.  i.  137. 

This  passage,  the  importance  of  which  was  noted  by  Dr. 
Errfra,  No.  342*,  at  the  time  of  its  publication  in  1893,  states 
that  Sebastian  Cabot  was  sent  on  a  voyage  of  discovery  by  the 
father  of  the  reigning  King  of  England,  Henry  VIII.,  and  that, 
having  been  forced  to  return  from  tne  ice-covered  seas  into  which 
he  had  ventured,  he  found  on  his  arrival  in  England  that  the  king 
his  patron  was  dead,  and  that  the  son,  Henry  VJII.,  who  ascended 
the  throne  in  April,  1509,  took  little  interest  in  the  ideas  of  dis- 
covery ;  cum  300  homeni  navigo  tanto  che  trovo  il  mare  congelato, 
ande  convenne  al  Caboto  ritornarsene  senza  havere  lo  intento  suo, 
cum  presuposito  pero  di  ritornarsene  a  quella  impresa  a  tempo  che 
il  mare  non  fosse  congelato.  Trovo  il  re,  morto,  ed  il  figlio 
curarsi  poco  di  tale  impresa.  This  evidence,  recorded  twenty-seven 
years  after  the  event,  is  the  most  definite  and  most  satisfactory 
single  source  of  information  regarding  the  Cabot  voyage,  which  is 
supposed  to  have  been  undertaken  at  some  time  during  the  first 
two  decades  of  the  sixteenth  centuiy.  See  the  Introduction,  pp.  xvii, 
xliv,  and  notes  under  Martyr,  No.  160. 

COOPER  (Thomas)  An  Epitome  of  Cronicles.  Con- 
teyninge  the  whole  discourse  of  the  histories  as  well  of 
this  realme  of  Eng-Iand  as  al  other  coutreys,  with  the 
succesion  of  their  kinges,  the  time  of  their  reigne,  and 
what  notable  a<5tes  they  did  :  much  profitable  to  be  redde, 
namelye  of  Magistrates,  and  such  us  have  au(£loritee  in 
com-mo  weales,  gathered  out  of  most  probable  auftours. 
Firste  by  Thomas  Lanquet,  from  the  be-ginning  of  the 
worlde  to  the  incarnacion  of  Christe,  Secondely  to  the 
reigne  of  our  soueraigne  lord  king  Edward  the  sixt  by 
Thon-.as  Cooper,  and  thirdly  to  the  reign-  of  our  soue- 
raigne Ladye  Quene  Elizabeth,  by  Robert  Crow-ley. 
Anno.  1 559. — Londlni,  In  aedibus  Thomae  Marshe.      (81 ) 

4to.  T  +  26  11  +  I  blank  If  +  fol.  1-280  (the  foliation  very 
irregular)  +  26  11  not  numbered.  Signatures  A  in  4  -f  A — F  in 
4s  +  A — Qq  in  4s  -f  I  leaf  (marked  Rr  4)  +  Rr — Ffff  in  4s  + 
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Colophon  on  the  reflo  of  last  leaf:  Imprinted  at  London  hy 
William  Seres  .  .  .   1559.     The  .v.  tlaye  of  Apryll. 

The  first  edition  of  Cooper's  Chronicle  was  published  in  1549, 
printed  by  Thomas  Berthelet,  and  recorded  events  down  to  154.7. 
The  date  on  the  title  to  this  edition  is  mdlxix,  but  the  correft 
year  is  given  in  the  colophon.  The  wording  of  the  title-page, 
with  slight  variations  in  spelling,  is  followed  in  that  of  1559,  as 
far  as  "Thomas  Cooper."  Cooper  issued  a  new  edition  in  1560 — 
see  the  following  title — in  the  preface  to  which  he  states  that  upon 
examining  the  Marshe  and  Seres  edition  of  1559,  vvhich  had  been 
issued  without  any  authorization  from  him,  therein  "  I  saw  some 
thynges  of  myne  lefte  out,  and  many  thynges  of  others  annexed  ; 
so  dyd  I  finde  almost  fiue  hundred  fautes  and  errours  eyther  of  the 
prynter,  or  els  of  hym  that  vndertooke  the  correflion  .  .  .  the 
Edicion  of  .  .  .  1559  isnone  of  myne,  butthe  attempteof  certayne 
persons  vtterly  vnltarned."     (H.  N.  S.) 

To  these  "  vtterly  vnlearned  "  editors,  however,  is  due  the  in- 
teresting statement  on  fol,  sig.  Eeee  3,  under  the  date  1553  :  "In 
this  meane  whyle  there  were  three  noble  shyppes  fumyshed  for  the 
great  aduenture  of  the  vnknowen  viage  into  the  easte  by  the  north- 
seas.  The  great  encourager  of  this  voiage  was  Sebastian  Gaboto, 
an  englisheman,  borne  at  Bristow,  but  a  Genoways  sonne.  These 
shyps  dyd  shortly  after  passe  gallantly  by  Grenewiche  in  the  kynges 
presence,  one  of  the  maryners  standyng  vpon  the  mayne  topmaste 
of  one  of  them." 

See  Harrisse,  Cabot,  16-18,  for  an  elaborate  discussion  of  the 
authorship  and  probable  trustworthiness  of  the  statement  regarding 
the  nationality  of  the  Cabots.  Harrisse  shows  apparently  good 
reasons  for  ascribing  this  paragraph  to  the  hack-writer,  printer,  and 
preacher,  Crole  or  Crowley,  who  was  living  in  London  during  the 
years  1 551-1554)  when  Cabot  was  also  presumably  living  there. 

COOPER  (Thomas)  Coopers  Chroni-cle,  conteininge 
the  whole  discourse  of  the  histories  as  well  of  this  realme, 
as  all  other  countries,  .  .  .  newly  enlarged  and  augmented, 
as  well  in  the  first  part  with  diuers  profitable  Histo-ries,  as 
in  the  latter  ende  with  the  whole  summe  of  those  thinges 
that  Paulus  Jouius  and  Sleidane  hath  written  of  late 
yeres,  that  is,  from  the  beginnyng  of  Kyng  Hen-rie  the 
eightes  raigne  vnto  the  late  death  of  Queene  Ma-rie,  by 
me  Thomas  Coo-per. — Londiniy  1560.  (82) 

4to.    T  +  29  11  -H  11  1-377  +  1 1. 

The  reference  to  Cabot,  fol.  3  57,  is  under  the  date  1553:  "  Aboute 
this  time  in  England  by  the  encourageynge  of  one  Sebastian  Gaboto 
three  great  shippes  wel  furnisheu  were  set  forthe,  for  the  aduenture 
of  vnknowen  viage  to  Moscovia  and  other  easte  partes  by  the  North 
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A  new  edition,  with  further  additions,  was  issued  by  Cooper, 
August  I  St,  1565.  The  Cabot  passage  was  changed  so  as  to  state 
that  of  the  three  ships,  "  by  chauncc  one  arriued  in  Moscouia,  and 
other  east  parts  by  the  north  seas."     (H.  N.  S.) 

COOTE  (Charles  Henry). 

See  Desceliers,  No,  89,  for  Mr.  Coote's  Introduction  to  Lord 
Crawford's  facsimiles  of  three  mappemondes.      Mr.  Coote's  other 
'    Cabotian  writings  are  described  as  Nos.  305  and  306. 

CORTES  (Hernan)  [Letter  addressed  to  Sebastian  Cabot, 
— (Mexico)  28  May,  1527.  (83) 

Manuscript  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies  at  Seville,  Patronato 
Real,  Leg.  6. 

Printed  in  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  v.  457-459. 

In  response  to  instructions  from  Spain,  Cortes  despatched  an 
expedition  to  the  Moluccas  under  the  command  of  Alvaro  de 
Saavedra.  This  was  designed  to  co-operate  with  or  assist,  as  might 
prove  necessary,  the  expeditions  of  Cabot  and  Loaisa.  Saavedra 
was  furnished  with  an  explanatory  letter  of  introduction  to  Cabot, 
and  with  similar  letters  to  the  members  of  Cabot's  fleet,  as  well  as 
to  various  potentates  of  sundry  realms  in  the  Spice  regions,  upon 
whose  territories  chance  might  land  him.  These  letters,  together 
with  the  journal  of  the  expedition,  are  printed  by  Navarrete, 
Coleccion,  v.  440  -48  6.  (83') 

COSA  (Juan  de  la)  Juan  de  la  cosa  la  fizo  en  el  puerto 
de  Sa:  mja.  en  ano  de  1500.  (84) 

A  manuscript  map  of  the  known  world,  in  colours,  on  an  ox-hide 
measuring  180  x  96  centimetres,  or  5  ft.  9  x  3  ft.  2. 

This  map  probably  belonged  originally  to  the  office  of  the  Spanish 
Minister  of  Marine  at  Madrid.  It  was  found  in  a  bric-a-brac  shop 
in  Paris  in  1832  by  Baron  Walckenaer.  At  the  sale  of  his  library 
in  1853, — catalogue  No.  2904, — it  was  purchased  by  the  Queen  of 
Spain,  and  now  hangs  in  the  Naval  Museum  at  Madrid. 

A  facsimile,  the  size  of  the  original,  coloured  by  hand,  was  pub- 
lished  by  Sres.  Canovas  Vallejo  and  Traynor  in  1892.  It  was 
accompanied  by : 

ENSAYO  biografico  del  celebre  navegante  y  consumado  cosmo- 
grafo  Juan  de  la  Cosa  y  descripcion  e  historia  de  su  famosa 
carta  geografica  por  Antonio  Vascaro. — Madrid,  OClubre, 
1892.  (8s) 

8vo.    2  T  +  pp  5-109. 

The  text  is  in  Spanish,  French,  and  English. 

Another  facsimile,  in  colours,  is  in  Jomard,  Monuments  de  la 
Ciograpbie^ — Paris,  1862,  pi.  xvi,  in  three  sheets.    There  is  also  an 


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admirable  facsimile  in  the  Muieo  Espanol  de  Antigiiedades,  baja  la 
direccion  del  do6lor  Don  Juan  dt  Dios  de  la  Rada  y  Delgado,  iv, 
— Madrid^  1875.  It  illustrates  an  excellent  descriptive  essay  on  the 
map,  pp.  113-124.,  by  D.  Cesareo  Fernandez  Duro.  Another  re- 
duced facsimile  accompanies  Dawson,  Latest  Phases,  No.  319. 
The  American  portions  are  sketched  with  varying  accuracy  in 
Humboldt,  Examen,  v,  and  in  his  appendix  to  Ghillany,  Ge- 
schichte  Martin  Behaims,  Niiinberg,  1853,  reissued  in  the  Amsterdam 
Set:''abinet ;  in  Kretschmer,  pi.  vii ;  and  in  most  of  the  good 
books  on  American  discovery.  See  HarRISSE,  Discovery,  41 2-41 5, 
for  a  transcript  of  the  American  names,  made  from  a  full-size  photo- 
graph taken  m  1889.  (84*) 

Along  the  north-eastern  coast  of  the  newly  discovered  regions  is 
the  legend :  Mar  descubierta  por  inglese — Sea  discovered  by  the 
English.  Against  this  coast,  which  supports  five  English  flags,  are 
placed  2 1  names,  of  which  Harrisse  says :  "  A  priori  this  first  series 
of  names  was  borrowed  by  La  Cosa  from  an  English  map,  as  it 
describes  a  region  which  in  1500  had  been  visited  only  by  British 
mariners."  The  north-easternmost  name  against  the  mainland  is 
Cauo  de  ynglaterra — England's  Cape ;  near  by  is  Cauo  de  S.  iohan, 
and  the  southernmost  are  C°  de  S.  Jorge  and  Cauo  descubierto — the 
cape  discovered. 

Efforts  to  identify  the  coast  along  which  Cabot  sailed  in  1497,  or 
1498,  by  means  of  this  earliest  cartographic  evidence,  and  thus  to 
establish  the  location  of  his  landfall,  have  been  made  with  widely 
and  curiously  divergent  results  by  nearly  every  writer  who  has  treated 
of  the  Cabot  problems. 

COTTONIAN  CHRONICLE  or  CRONICON   RE- 
GUM  ANGLIAE. 

The  Cronicon  now  in  the  British  Museum,  which  resembles  so 
closely  the  "  Old  Chronicle,  written  by  Robert  Fabyan,"  used 
by  Stow  and  Hakluyt,  is  described  under  Fabyan,  No.  103. 

CRAWFORD  AND  BALCARRES  (The  Earl  of). 

The  mappemondes  reproduced  in  facsimile  by  Lord  Crawford 
are  described  under  Desceliers,  No.  89. 

CROWLEY  (Robert). 

The  unauthorized  edition  of  Cooper's  Chronicle,  edited  by 
Crowley  and  published  by  Marshe  and  Seres,  London,  1559,  is 
described  under  Ci^oper,  No.  81. 

DAHLGREN  (Erik  Wilhelm). 

Mr.  Dahlgren's  facsimile  of  the  Santa  Crvz  mappemonde  is 
described  under  No.  204. 


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DAVIS  (John)  The  Worldes  Hy-drographical  Discription. 
Wherein  is  proued  not  onely  by  audliiori-tie  of  writers, 
but  also  by  late  experience  of  trauellers  and  reasons  of  sub- 
stantial! pro-babilitie  that  the  worlde  in  all  his  Zones 
Clymats  and  places,  is  habitable  and  inhabi-ted,  and 
the  Seas  likewise  uniuersally  Naui-gable  without  any 
naturall  anoyance  to  hin-der  the  same  whereby  appeares 
that  from  England  there  is  a  short  and  speedie  passage  into 
the  South  Seas,  to  China,  Molucca,  Phil-lipina,  and  India, 
by  Northerly  Nauiga-tion,  to  the  renowne  honour  and  be- 
nifit  of  her  Maiesties  state,  and  Communalty.  Published 
by  I.  Davis  of  Sandrudg  by  Dartmouth  .  .  .  1595.  May 
27.     Imprinted  at  London  by  Tho-mas  Dawson.     1595. 

(86) 

Small  8vo.    T  +  23  II. 

Reprinted  in  Hakluyt,  i8o9-(2,  No.  130,  iv.  (1811)  451-468; 
and  in  No.  87. 

The  text  opens  with  the  statement  that  the  unsuccessful  attempts 
made  by  Sebastian  Cabotta  had  proved  the  imporsibility  or  a 
north-west  passage. 

DAVIS  (John)  The  voyages  and  works  of  John  Davis 
the  navigator.  Edited  by  Albert  Hastings  Markham. — 
London^  for  the  Hakluyt  Society,  mdccclxxx.  (87) 

8vo.     2  T  +  4  11  +  pp  xcv  +  392  +  niap  +  plate. 
This  volume  is  accompanied  by  the  map  described  below  under 
MoLYNEUX,  No.  174.     See  Coote,  No.  305. 
The  Hydrographical  Description  is  on  pp.  191-228. 

DE   BRY  (Theodor). 

"^'he  reference  to  Cabot's  1 507  voyage  in  De  Bry's  "  Grands 
Voyages,"  part  iv.  cap.  xiiii.  is  mentioned  under  Chauveton, 
No.  73. 

The  best  bibliographic  description  of  this  colleftion  of  voyages 
is  in  Bibliotheca  Lindejiana,  Couationi  and  Notes,  No.  3,  Grands  et 
Petits  Voyages  of  De  Bry.  By  LuDOVic,  Earl  of  Crawford 
AND  Balcarres, — London^  1884.  Large  410.  2  T  +  viii  +  215 
pp  +  T  +  33  facsimile  plates. 

DEE  (John)     loannes  Dee    Anno,  1580.  (88) 

M<inuscript  map  of  North  America  and  the  transatlantic  coasts 
of  Europe,  in  the  British  Museum,  London ;  measuring  4o|-  X 
26 L  inches;  or  104  x  67.5  centimetres. 

The  cartography  is  apparently  derived  from  Spanish  sources. 


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On  the  back  is  a  carefully  written  manuscript  memorandum, 
headed:  "To  the  Queenes  Maiesties  Title  Royall  to  these  foreyn 
Regions,  and  Hands,  doe  appertayn  .4.  poynts. 

1.  The  Clayme  in  particular: 

2.  The  Reason  of  the  Clayme  : 

3.  The  Credit  of  the  Reason  ; 

4..  The  value  of  that  Credit  by  force  of  Law. 

A  brief  Remembrance  of  sundry  forein  Regions,  Discovered, 
inhabited,  and  partly  Conquered  by  the  Subiefts  of  this  Brytish 
Monarchie :  And  so  the  lawfull  Title  of  our  Soveraigne  Lady 
Queene  Elizabeth,  for  the  due  Clayme  and  iust  Recovery  of  the 
wme  disclosed.  Which  in  efFeft  is  a  Title  Royall  to  all  the  Coasts 
and  Hands,  begining  at  or  abowt  Terra  Florida,  alongst  or  nere 
vnto  Atlantis,  going  Northerly,  and  then  to  all  the  most  Northen 
Hands,  great  and  small,  and  so  cumpassing  abowt  Groenland  vntill 
the  Territories  opposite,  vnto  the  fardest  Easterly  and  Njrthen 
Bownds  of  the  Duke  of  Moscovia  his  Dominions  :  which  last 
Bownds  are  from  our  Albion  more  than  half  the  Sea  voyage  to  the 
Cathayf.n  westerly  and  Northen  Sea  Coasts,  as  most  evidently,  and 
at  large  yt  is  declared  in  the  volume  of  Famous  and  Ryche 
Discoveries."     Among  the  reasons  adduced  are  : 

2.  Circa  an.  1494.  Mr.  Robert  Thorn  his  father,  and  Mr.  Eliot 
of  Bristow  discovered  Newfownd  Land.  (88') 

4.  Circa  an.  1497.  Sebastian  Caboto,  sent  by  King  Henry  the 
seventh  did  Discover  from  Newfownd  Land,  so  far  along  and 
abowt  the  Coasts  next  to  Laborador  tyll  he  came  to  the  Latitude  of 
.67 A..     And  styll  fownd  the  Seas  open  before  him.  (88'') 

The  correct  date,  1497,  is  interesting  in  view  of  the  confusion 
in  Hakluyt  and  other  contemporary  chroniclers.  The  obvious  in- 
tention of  this  memorandum  to  influence  the  Queen  is  suggestive 
of  Hakluyt's  No.  126. 

This  description  is  from  a  photograph,  the  size  of  the  original 
map,  made  for  Mr.  F.  W.  Lucas,  to  whose  kindness  the  compiler 
is  indebted  for  a  copy. 

DESCELIERS  (Pierre)  [Mappemonde  drawn  after 
1536,  probably  by  Pierre  Desceliers.  (89) 

Manuscript  in  the  British  Museum,  Add.  MS.  541 3  ;  on  parch- 
ment, 8  ft.  2  X  3  ft.  1 1 . 

The  southern,  Australian,  portions  of  this  map  have  been 
reproduced  several  times,  but  the  other  parts  of  the  map  were  not 
available  for  study  outside  of  London  prior  to  the  publication  by 
Lord  Crawford  of  an  autotype  full-size  facsimile,  in  fifteen  sheets, 
as  described  below. 

The  map  is  undated  and  unsigned,  but  Mr.  Coote,  in  No.  90, 
states  that  the  clear  references  to  Cartier's  first  voyage  to  New 
France,  and  the  resemblance  to  other  work  signed  by  Desceliers, 
permit  a  very  close  approximation  to  the  date  1536,  and  reasonable 
certainty  as  to  authorship.     The  map  has  been  frequently  referred 


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to  heretofore  as  "  Harleian  Mappemonde,"  and  its  date  is  given 
variously  as  153J  by  KoHL,  see  Harrisse,  Disco<very,  64.-7  i  before 
'554  ''y  WiNsoR,  Amer'hi,  iv.  85-89,  where  it  is  confounded  with 
the  Jomard-Crawford  map,  No.  91  below }  and  by  others  at  inter- 
vening years.  The  best  account  of  the  St.  Lawrence  region  as 
represented  on  this  map  is  in  the  RevietM  of  Historical  Publications 
relating  to  Canada, — Toronto,  1890,  iii.  47-52. 

Mr.  Harrisse,  in  the  Goltingische  gelehrte  Anzeigen,  No.  6,  1899,. 
examines  Mr.  Coote's  statements,  and  gives  his  reasons  for  believing 
that  the  map  could  not  have  been  drawn  before  Oftober  1542. 

The  chief  Cabotian  interest  o.  this  map  lies  in  the  fa6l  that  it  is 
an  early  example  of  the  Dieppe  school  of  cartography,  another 
example  of  which — Desliens,  No.  93 — apparently  served  as  proto- 
type for  portions  of  the  1 544  Cahot  map.  A  comparison  ot  these 
shows  that  the  maker  of  this  map  was  able  to  give  a  more  accurate 
portrayal  of  the  Newfoundland  region,  but  that  he  knew  far  less 
about  the  La  Plata  country  than  the  author  of  the  1544  map. 

This  map,  together  with  two  later  works  ascribed  to  Desceliers, 
was  reproduced  by  the  Earl  of  Crawford  and  Balcarres  in : 

BiBLiOTHEC  A  LiNDEsiANA  Collations  and  notes  N0.4  Autotype 
facsimiles  of  three  moppemondes  .  .  .  with  an  introduclion, 
including  a  short  notice  on  Desceliers'  later  mappemonde  of 
1553  by  Charle-;  Henry  Coote — Privatelv  printed  mdcccxcviii. 

(90) 

/.to.     2  T  -|-  pp  5-18  :  Atlas,  49  sheets,  100  copies  printed. 

Besides  No.  89,  this  contains  facsimiles  of: 

(i)  Mappemonde  :  Fai<5les  a  Arques  par  [Pierrt  Desceliers, 

presb'*.]  1546.  (91) 

Manuscript,  in   the   libra.y   of  Lord    Craw/ord,    Haigh    Hall, 

Wigan,  England,  Bibl.  Lind.  French  MS.  No.  150;  on  parchment, 

8  ft.  2  X  4  ft.  li.. 

This  map  formerly  belonged  to  M.  Jomard,  who  reproduced  it 
in  his  Monuments  de  la  G/ograp/tie, — Paris,  1862,  pi.  xix.  1-6.  M. 
Jo.mard  not  observing  the  almost  obliterated  inscription,  it  was 
styled  by  him  the  "  Henri  II."  mappemonde,  by  which  name  it  is 
frequently  referred  to.  Mr.  Harrisse,  in  the  critical  essay  noted 
uncler  No.  89,  expresses  doubts  as  to  the  propriety  of  ascribing  this 
map  to  Desceliers.  (91'^) 

The  increased  knowledge  of  the  St.  Lawrence  River  region, 
recorded  on  this  map,  deprives  it  of  any  especial  Cabotian  interest. 
The  more  noticeable  increase  in  ignorance  of  the  basin  of  La  Plata, 
which  is  also  seen  in  the  following  map,  may  have  some  significance 
for  those  who  would  explain  the  inaccuracies  In  the  1 544  Cabot  map. 

(2)  Mappemonde  :  Faifte  a  Arqves  Par  Pierres  Desceliers 
Pbre:  L'an :  1550.  (92) 

Manuscript  in  the  British  Museum,  Add,  MS.  24,065;  on  parch- 
ment, 7  ft.  z  X  4  ft.  5. 


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DFSLIENS  (^Nicolas)  [Mappemonde :  faide  a  Dieppe 
par  Nicolas  Deslieng,  1541.  (93) 

Manuscript  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Dresden,  Geogr.  A.  51.  M. ; 
on  parchment.  41  x  22!  inches,  or  104  x  57.5  centimetres. 

This  map  was  described  tor  the  first  time  by  Ruoe,  Entiviciel- 
ungder  Kartographii, — Goiha,  1892,  61-63.  There  is  a  facsimile  of 
the  Newfoundland  regions  in  Harrisse,  C'<i^o/,  95.  Mr.  Harrisse 
shows  clearly  that  the  representation  of  the  Gi.lf  of  St.  Lawrence  on 
the  1544  Cabct  map  was  derived  from  this  o:  from  some  very  similar 
map.  According  to  Dr.  Ruge,  the  South  American  portions,  and 
especially  La  Plata,  are  less  accurate  vhan  in  the  1544  map. 

See  notes  to  Desceliers,  Nos.  89  and  9I^ 

DRAPERS'  COMPANY  OF  LONDON  [An  answer 
made  to  serten  of  the  kings  counsell  as  coiisernyng  the  kingf^ 
shippes  to  be  occupyed — i  March-9  April,  1521.  (94) 

Archives  of  the  Drapers'  Company,  London,  ff^arJens  Manuscript 
Accounts,  vii.  fol.  86-87. 

F."'i.tcd  first  by  Harrisse,  Discovery,  747-750.  Noted  in 
Herbert,  Tiuelve  Great  Livery  Companies,  1837,  i.  410. 

These  records  show  that  "  the  king  &  my  lord  Cardinall 
[Wolsey]  and  the  Counsell  thynketh  .  ,  .  that  there  be  appoynted 
a  c'tayn  noUmbre  of  ships  to  be  prepared  for  a  viage  to  be  made 
into  the  newe  found  Hand  .  .  .  (this  gild)  to  furnyshe  v  shipps  .  .  . 
The  king's  Grace  to  prepare  them  in  takyll  ordena'^nce  and  all  other 
necessaries  at  his  charge,  And  also  the  kin?  to  bere  the  advento' 
.  .  .  the  m'chaunts  Sc  companys  to  be  at  the  charge  of  the  vitaylling 
and  mennys  wages  ...  for  one  hole  yere  and  the  shipps  not  to  be 
above  vj"  ton  apece."  Exclusive  trading  privileges  were  granted 
for  ten  years,  and  release  from  customs  dues  "  xv  monthes  &  xv 
monthes."     Bristol  had  already  promised  to  furnish  two  ships. 

In  their  reply,  the  wardens  declare  that  the  king  and  his  coun- 
cillors "  were  duely  and  substaiincially  enformed  in  suche  man'  as 
perfite  knowledge  myght  be  had  by  credible  reporte  of  maisters  Sc 
fjiariners  naturally  born  within  this  Realm  of  England  having  ex- 
perience, and  exercised  'i  and  abowt  the  forsaid  Hand  as  wele  in 
knowlege  of  the  land,  the  due  courses  of  the  seey  thiderward  and 
homeward,  as  in  knowlege  of  the  havenes  .  .  .  dayngers,  & 
sholds  there  vppon  that  coste  .  .  .  that  than  it  were  the  Jesse  jopardy 
to  aventer  raider,  than  it  is  nowe,  all  though  it  be  ferther  hens  than 
fewe  Enghsn  maryncrs  can  tell. 

"  And  we  thynk  it  were  to  sore  avenf  to  joperd  v  shipps  with 
men  fn  goods  vnto  the  said  Hand  "ppon  the  singuler  trust  of  one 
man  callyi  as  we  vnderstond  Sebastyan,  whiche  Sebastyan  as  we  here 
say  was  neu'  in  that  land  hym  self,  all  if  he  maks  reporte  of  many 
things  as  he  hath  hard  his  Father  and  other  men  speke  in  tymes  past. 

'<  And  also  we  say  that  if  the  said  Sebastyan  nad  bene  there  and 
were  as  conyng  a  man  in  Sc  iTor  thoos  parties  as  any  man  i^yght  be 


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having  non  other  assista''nts  of  maistcrs  &  maryn's  of  Englond 
exercised  &  labored  in  the  same  p'ties  for  to  guyd  there  shipps  and 
other  charges  than  we  knowe  of,  but  onely  trusting  to  the  said 
Sebastyan,  we  suppos  it  were  no  wysdoni  to  avent'  lyves  &  goods 
thider  in  suche  man',  What  for  fere  of  sylcnes  or  dethe  of  the  said 
Sebastian,  .  .  ." 

Despite  the  efforts  of  the  eleven  crafts,  the  crown  insisted  upon 
organizing  the  expedition.  The  Drapers  with  much  difficulty 
subscribed  200  marks. 

It  has  been  assumed,  and  there  seem  to  be  no  good  reasons  for 
doubting,  that  the  ''said  Sebastyan"  was  surnamed  Cabot.  Mr. 
Harrisse,  Cabot,  168-173,  finds  in  this  piotest  a  strong  confirmation 
of  his  estimate  of  the  character  of  Sebastian.  He  also  sees  in  the 
plea  for  "  mariners  born  within  the  realm  "  a  proof  of  Cabot's 
foreign  nativity.  The  payment  to  Goderyk  mentioned  in  the  will 
of  Sir  Thomas  Lovell — see  Brewer,  No.  14'' — may  have  had  some 
conne£lion  with  this  expedition,  as  Harrisse  suggests.  What  appears 
to  be  Cabot's  statement  regarding  his  relations  to  this  episode  is 
quoted  in  the  notes  to  No.  76. 

EDEN  (Richard)  A  treatyse  of  the  newe  India,  with 
other  new  founde  landes  and  Ilandes,  aswell  eastwarde  as 
westwarde,  as  they  are  knowen  and  found  in  these  oure 
dayes,  after  the  descripcion  of  Se-bastian  Munster  in  his 
bolce  of  vni-uersall  Cosmographie  .  .  .  Translated  out  of 
Latin  into  Englishe.  By  Rycharde  Eden. — [Colophon] 
1553.     Imprinted  zt  London.  (95) 

ismo.    T  +  101  11. 
Reprinted  in  Arber,  No.  6,  pp.  3-4.2* 

A  reference  to  an  expedition  "  vnder  the  gouernaunce  of  Sebastian 
Cabot  yet  liuing,  &  one  syr  Thomas  Perte,  whose  faynt  heart  was 
the  cause  that  that  viage  toke  none  efFcft,"  which  "  K.inge  Henry 
the  .viij.  about  the  same  yere  of  his  raygne,  furnished  8c  sent  forth 
certen  shippes,"  is  on  1.  sig.  aa  .  iiij,  or  Arber,  6,  with  comments 
on  p.  xiii.     See  the  Introdu£licn,  p.  xliv. 

EDEN  (Richard)  The  decades  of  the  newe  worlde  or 
west  India,  Conteynyng  the  nauigations  and  conquestes  of 
the  Spanyardes,  with  the  particular  de-scription  of  the 
moste  ryche  and  large  landes  and  Ilandes  lately  founde  in 
the  west  Ocean  .  .  .  many  secreates  touchynge  the  lande, 
the  sea,  and  the  starres,  very  necessarie  to  be  knowe  to  al 
such  as  shal  attempte  any  nauigations  .  .  .  Wrytten  in  the 
Latine  tounge  by  Peter  Klartyr  of  Angleria,  and  translated 
into  Englysshe  by  Rycharde  Eden — Londini,  1555.  (9^) 
Small  4to.     T  +  23  11  +  map  +  11  1-361  +  13. 


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Reprinted  in  Arber,  No.  6,  pp.  43-397. 

The  edition  of  1577,  edited  by  WiLLES,  is  described  a*  No.  130. 

The  Cabot  passages  are  on  I.  sig.c.  i,  where"  Rycharde  Eden  to 
the  reader"  states  that  "the  woorthy  owlde  man  yet  lyuing 
Sebastiane  Cabote  .  .  .  touched  only  in  the  north  corner  and  most 
barbarous  parte  hereof,  trotn  whense  he  was  repulsed  with  Ise  in  the 
moneth  of  July"  : 

LI.  118-119,  where  Eden  misunderstood  Martyr  to  say  that 
Cabot  was  "  one  of  owre  counsayle  and  assystance  as  touchynge  the 
affayres  of  the  newe  Indies,"  which  modem  writers  have  assumed  to 
imply  that  Cabot  belonged  to  the  Spanish  Council  for  the  Indies  : 

LI.  255-256,  where  a  marginal  note  to  Ramusio's  story  of  the 
Mantuan  gentleman — No.  194 — states  that  "  Cabofe  tould  me  that 
he  was  borne  in  Brystowe,"  and  that  he  also  "  tould  me  that  (at  La 
Plata)  he  sowed  I.  graynes  of  weate,"  which  may  fairly  be  assumed 
to  show  why  Eden  correfted  this  wheat  story,  on  1.  317,  where  he 
gives  a  free  version  of  legend  7  on  the  15+4  Cabot  map — No.  55^ 
— "  as  he  wryteth  in  his  owne  carde  .  .  .  they  gathered  therof  two 
thousande  and  fiftie  .  .  .  wherin  sume  beinge  deceaued  and  mis- 
takynge  the  thynge,  haue  wrytten  .  .  .  fyftie  thousande  and  two." 
This  passage  from  the  map  is  interpolated  in  the  middle  of  Eden's 
very  free  rendering  from  Go  ara,  whose  Baccalaos  passage  is  on  II. 
317-318.  ZieglePs  version  of  Martyr,  No.  232,  is  on  I.  268,  with 
the  note  :  "  Cabote  tould  me  that  this  Ise  is  of  fresshe  water." 

EDEN  (Richard)  A  very  necessarie  and  profitable  Booke 
concer-ning  Nauigation,  compiled  in  Latin  by  loannes 
Taisnie-rus,  a  publike  professor  in  Rome,  Ferraria,  & 
other  Uniuersities  in  Italie  of  the  Mathematicalles,  named 
a  treatise  of  continuall  Mo-tions.  Translated  into  Englishe, 
by   Richarde  Eden. — Imprinted  at  London  by  Richarde 

lugge.  (97) 

Small  4to.    T  -I-  41  11. 

The  date  of  publication  was  later  than  1573,  and  probably  about 
1 575.  Captain  Markham,  Davis'  Foyagei,  p.  356,  follows  the  British 
Museum  catalogue  in  dating  it  1 579,  without  comment.  No  books 
printed  by  Juege  are  known  with  a  later  date  than  1577. 

This  translation  contains  much  the  same  matter,  differently 
arranged,  as  the  original  : 

OPVSCVLVM  Perpetva  Me-moria  dignissimvm,  de  natvramag- 
netis,  et  eivs  efFe6libvs.  Authore  loanne  Taisnierio  Hannonio 
— Coioniae,  Apud  Joannem  Birckmannum,  m.d.lxii.         (98) 

4to.  T  .f  45  leaves  (paged  1-80,  but  incorreftly).  Sigs.  A-K 
in  4s  -|-  L  in  6.  The  last  leaf  is  a  portrait  of  the  author,  which  is 
also  repeated  on  the  verso  of  the  title. 

Eden's  Epistle  Dedicatorie,  1.  sig.  3,  tells  of  how  "  the  knowledge 
of  the  longitude  myght  be  founde.  .  .  .  Sebastian  Cabot  on  his 


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death  bed  tolde  me  that  he  had  the  knowledge  thereof  by  diuine 
reuelation,  yet  ro,  that  he  myght  not  teache  any  man.  But  I  thinke 
that  the  good  olde  man,  in  that  extreme  age,  somewhat  doted, 
and  had  not  yet  euen  in  the  article  of  death,  vtterly  shaken  of  all 
worldlye  vayne  glorie," 

M.  d'Avezac  discusses  Eden's  work  as  a  translator  in  the  Re'vue 
Critique,  v.  265. 

EDWARD  VI.,  KING  OF  ENGLAND  The  large 
pension  graunted  by  K.  Edward  the  6.  to  Sebastian 
Cabota,  constituting  him  grand  Pilot  of  England — fVest- 
minster^  6  Januaric,  1548.  (99) 

Printed  in  Haki  uyt,  Principall  ffavigationi,  1589,  519-520,  in 
Latin  and  English      Also  in  Rymer,  Foedera,  vi.  pt.  iii.  170. 

This  is  the  grsnt  of  a  yearly  salary  of  /^i66  13/.  4^.,  payable 
quarterly,  and  b. ginning  from  the  preceding  Feast  of  St.  Michael 
the  Archangel,  19  September. 

Two  records,  printed  by  Dasent,  ASli  of  the  Privy  Council  of 
England, — London,  1890,  ii.  137,  320,  seem  to  show  that  Cabot's 
return  to  England  in  1 547-48  was  the  result  of  negotiations  with 
the  English  Government. 

1547,  9  06Vober ;  Mr.  Peckham  had  Warrant  for  100  11  for  the 
transporting  of  one  Shabot  a  Pilot  to  come  out  of  Hispain  to  serve 
and  inhabit  in  England.  ('c) 

1549,  2  September;  Thexchequer  had  warrant  for  C  li  to 
Henry  Oystrynge  by  him  taken  up  by  Exchaunge  for  condu6ling 
of  Sebastian  Sabott.  (lO') 

The  ambassador  of  Charles  V.  presented  to  the  Council  of 
Edward  VI.  a  request  from  the  Emperor  asking  for  the  return  of 
Cabotte,  29  January,  1 549-50.  An  answer  was  promised  after  due 
consideration,  according  to  the  Council  memorandum  printed  in 
Dasent,  ASs,  ii.  374.  The  answer  was  given  in  April,  and  was 
reported,  as  follows : 

EDWARD  VI.  [Dispatch  from  the  King's  Council  to 
Sir  Philip  Hoby — Grenewich^  21  April,  1550.  (102) 

Manuscript  memorandum  in  the  British  Museum,  Harleian 
MSS.  sz^yfol.  6-7  bis. 

Printed  by  Hopper  in  Notes  and  S^ueries,  London,  15  February, 
1862,  3  Ser.  i.  125,  and  by  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  359-360. 
An  abstract  was  printed  in  J.  G.  Nichols,  Literary  Remains  of 
King  Edward  FI. — London,  1857,  No.  470.  This  dispatch  in- 
formed the  English  ambassador  at  Brussels  that  the  Emperor's 
representative  in  London  had  confirmed  the  request  for  Cabot's 
return — see  Cheyne,  No,  74 — and  that  in  reply  the  Council 
declared  that  Cabot  "  was  not  deteined  heere  by  vs,  but  that  he  of 


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himself  refused  to  go  cither  into  Spayne  or  to  the  emp"  ...  he 
being  the  kinges  subiefte."  The  Spanish  ambassador  thereupon 
tougnt  an  interview  with  Cabot,  which  was  granted  in  the  presence 
of  Richard  Shelley,  as  representative  of  the  Council.  Cabot  con- 
firmed the  statements  made  by  the  Council,  but  added  that  "  hauing 
knowlege  of  certein  thinges  veric  necessarie  for  the  Emp""  know- 
lege,  he  was  well  contented  for  the  good  well  he  here  themp"'  to 
write  his  mind  vnto  him,  or  declare  the  same  here  to  enie  such  as 
shulde  be  appointed  to  heare  him."  Thereupon  the  ambassador 
asked  Cabot  if  he  would  visit  the  Emperor  in  case  the  Council 
commanded  him  to  do  so.  "Wherunto  Cabot  made  aunswere  as 
Shelley  reportethe  .  .  .  then  he  knew  wel  inoughe  what  he  had  to 
do."     With  this  the  ambassador  was  perforce  seemingly  contented. 

See  Charles  V.  No.  71,  and  Cabot,  No.  59,  for  the  renewal 
of  these  efforts  to  secure  Cabot's  return  to  Spain,  after  (^ueen 
Mary  succeeiied  Edward  VI, 

A  gratuity  of  ^zoo^icj  li  by  way  of  the  K,  M.  rewarde — was 
paid  to  Cabote  at  the  direction  ot  the  Council,  26  June,  1550 :  see 
Dasent,  ASis,  iii.  55 ;  Harrisse,  Cabot,  450.  Strype,  Me- 
morials, ii.  pt.  ii.  76,  mentions  a  grant  of  the  same  amount  to 
Cabot  in  March,  1551.  (103) 

There  is  a  record  in  the  Tellers  Rolls,  100  (Harrisse,  Cabot, 
451),  which  shows  that  Cabot  was  paid  one  quarter  of  his  salary  or 
pension, /[4 1  13/.  4^/.,  on  17  April,  1551.  (>04) 

FABYAN  (Robert)  Cronicon  regum  Angliae  et  Series 
Maiorii  et  vicecomitu  Ciuitatis  London  ab  Anno  prime 
Henrici  tertii  ad  Annii  primii  Hen:  8"'.  [etc.,  etc.]    (105) 

Manuscript  in  the  British  Museum,  MS.  Cott.  Fitellius,  A  xvi. 

The  passage  referring  to  Cabot,  on  fol.  173,  was  printed  by 
Hale,  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society, 
21  O^ober,  1865,  p.  iz;  and, following  the  original  spelling  more 
carefully,  by  Dexter,  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  s^me  society — 
Worcester,  188 1,  new  series,  i.  440. 

This  apparently  contemporary  chronicle  states  under  13  H.  VII, 
(1497)  that  "This  yere  the  kyng  at  tho  bcsy  request  and  Suppli- 
cacon  of  a  Straunger  venisian  which  by  a  Caart  made  hym  self 
expert  iu  knowyng  of  the  world  caused  the  kyng  to  manne  a  ship 
w'  vytaill  &  other  necessaries  for  to  seche  an  Hand  wheiyn  the  said 
Straunger  Surmysed  to  be  grete  comodities  /  w'  which  Ship  by  the 
kyngf  grace  so  went  iij  or  iiij  moo  owte  of  Bristowe  the  said 
Straunger  beyng  Conditor  of  the  said  Flete/  wheryn  dyuers 
IrtchauntP  as  well  of  London  as  Bristow  aventuredgoodf  &.  Sleight 
iBchaundises  which  depted  from  the  West  Cimtrey  in  the  begynnyng 
of  Somer  but  to  this  psent  moneth  came  nevir  knowlege  of  their 
exployt." — [^Re-read  and  corrected  from  the  original  MS.,  Nov.  « 899.] 

This  chronicle,  or  one  bearing  a  close  resemblance  to  it,  formed 
the  basis  for  the  Cabot  statements  in  Stow,  Chronicle,  No.  212, 


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where  Robert  Fabyan  is  referred  to  as  the  authority;  and  also, 
through  Stow  or  Holinshed,  No.  146,  for  statements  printed  by 
Hakluyt  in  1582,  152,9,  and  1599.  Much  doubt  and  controversy 
has  arisen  from  the  faft  that  Stow  wrote,  in  place  of  "  a  Straunger 
venisian,"  ''one  Sebastian  Gabato  a  genoas  sonne  borne  in  Bris> 
tow";  while  Hakluyt,  in  1581,  has  it  "A  Venetian,"  in  1589, 
and  in  1599,  "one  John  Cabot,  a  Venetian,"  the  paragraph  in  both 
cases  having  the  heading  :  "  A  note  of  Sebastian  Gabotes  voyage 
.  .  .  taken  out  of  an  old  Chronicle  written  by  Robert  Fabian  .  .  . 
in  the  custodie  of  John  Stowe."  The  changes  made  by  Hakluyt 
were  discussed,  with  considerable  show  of  feeling,  by  Biddle,  No. 
a6i,  pp.  41-4-5,  and  Tytler,  No.  555,  pp.  421-427  :  see  Har- 
RissE,  Cabot,  25,  131,  396;  and  Dexter,  No.  331.  Very  little 
attention  has  been  p.:id  to  the  extremely  significant  information 
contained  ;n  the  remainder  of  this  paragraph. 

Possible  motives  for  mterpolating  a  "forged  account  of  Cabot's 
return  alleged  10  have  been  copied  "  from  the  Stow  manuscript  are 
suggested  by  E.  J.  Payne,  No.  473,  p.  235. 

Another  chronicle  credited  to  Fabyan,  of  which  nothing  is 
now  known,  is  mentioned  under  Stow,  No.  212. 

FERDINAND  AND  ISABELLA  [Dispatch  from  their 
Catholic  Majesties  to  Ruy  Gonzales  de  Puebla — Tortosa, 
28  March,  1496.  (106) 

Manuscript  at  Simancas,  Estadoy  Capitulaciones  con  Inglaterra, 
Leg.  2,  fol.  16. 

Printed  by  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  315-316. 

There  is  an  English  version  in  Bergenroth,  Calendars  (Spain), 
i.  88-89. 

One  paragraph  in  this  dispatch  to  the  Spanish  ambassador  in 
England  shows  that  he  had  reported  the  efforts  of  "  another 
Columbus,"  uno  como  Colon,  to  ii  terest  the  English  king  in  the 
affairs  of  the  Indies,  without  prejudice  to  the  rights  of  Spain  or 
Portugal.  Their  Spanish  Majesties  in  reply  suggest  that  this  effort 
may  have  been  inspired  by  the  French  king  in  order  to  distraft 
the  attention  of  Henry  VII.  It  is  apparently  implied  that  nothing 
can  be  done  without  injury  to  Spain  or  Portugal.  See  Gonzales 
DE  FuEBLA,  No.  120. 

FERDINAND   OF  A  R AGON     [Letter  to  "Milor  de 

Uliby   Capitan   R.   de  ]ng\''"—LogronOy   13  September, 

1512.  (107) 

Manuscript  copy  in  the  Librarj'  of  the  Academy  of  History  at 

Madrid,  Munoz  Transcripts,  xc.  fol.  109. 

The  sentence  referring  to  Cabot  is  printed  in  Harrisse,  J.  et 
S.  Cabot,  331. 
The  Spanish  king  requested  Lord  Willoughby  de  Broke,  who 


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commanded  the  English  forces  which  landed  at  Pasages,  Spain,  in 
June,  1512,  to  send  him  Seba^'  n  Caboto  Ingles,  from  whom  the 
king  desired  to  obtain  servit  ,)le  information :  porque  yo  quiero 
saber  del  cosas  de  ntro  servicio. 

This  letter  is  mentioned  by  Herkera,  Dec.  i,  lib.  ix,  cap.  xiii 
(1730  edition.  No.  143  n,  i.  254.),  who  states  that  the  king's  objeft 
was  to  discover  a  strait  leading  to  the  Spiceries,  and  for  this  purpose 
he  desired  to  secure  the  services  of  persons  acquainted  with  the 
Bacallaos.  (107a) 

FERDINAND    OF    ARAGON     [Letter    to    Sebastian 
Caboto — Logrono,  13  September,  151 2.  (108) 

Manuscript  at  Madrid,  Muhok  Transcripts,  xc.  fol.  115. 

Printed  in  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cahot,  331-2. 

This  letter  reminded  Cabot  of  an  agreement  he  had  made  to 
enter  the  Spanish  service,  at  an  interview  with  Conchillos  and  the 
Bishop  of  Palencia,  at  which  they  had  discussed  the  navigation  to 
the  Bacallaos. 

FERDINAND    OF    ARAGON      [Letter    "a    off.   de 
Sevilla" — LogronOj  20  October,  1512.  (109) 

Manuscript  at  Madrid,  Munoz,  Transcripts y  xc.  fol.  115. 

Printed  in  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  332. 

This  is  the  official  announcement  that  Sebastian  Caboto  had 
been  appointed  Capitan  de  Mar  with  a  yearly  salary  of  50,000 
maravedis. 

FERDINAND    OF    ARAGON     [Letter   to    D.    Luis 
Caro — Logrono,  20  October,  1512.  ('lo) 

Manuscript  at  Madrid,  Mu/loz  Transcripts,  xc.  fol.  115. 

Printed  in  HaRRISSE,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  332. 

This  letter  instruf^ed  the  Spanish  ambassador  in  England,  D. 
Luis  Carroz  de  Villaragut,  to  assist  Cabot  in  every  possible  manner 
to  put  his  affairs  in  order  preparatory  to  removing  his  wife  and 
family  to  Spain. 

Memoranda  of  payments  made  to  Cabot  by  the  Spanish  crown, 
from  the  Mu/ioz  Transcripts  belonging  to  the  Academy  of  History 
at  Madrid,  are  printed  by  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  333-334. 
They  are  dated  6  and  26  March,  7  April,  1514,  and  30  August, 
1515.  The  first  was  an  advance  of  50  ducados  to  enable  him  to 
proceed  to  the  court  for  consultation  concerning  matte,  s  connefted 
with  the  projefted  voyage  of  discovery.  The  other  payments  in 
1 5 14  relate  to  his  journey  to  London  and  the  expense  of  sending 
for  his  wife.  ("O 

A  cedula,  dated  in  Burgos,  13  June,  1515,  found  at  Simancas, 
Libra  de  Camera,  1513-16,  fol.  63,  and  printed  by  Harrisse,  Dis- 
co'very,  706,  orders  the  payment  of  10,000  maravedis  additional  to 

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Cabot  "  capitan  de  armada  de  las  cosas  de  las  yndias  .  .  .  para 
ayuda  a  su  costa."  ("2) 

The  appointment  of  Cabot  as  Piloto  Mayor,  in  place  of  Juan 
Dias  de  Solis,  deceased,  at  50,000  maravedis  salary,  is  in  the  Mutloz 
Transcripts,  Ixxv.  fol.  213,  and  Ixxvi.  fol.  28.  An  entry  in  Ixxv. 
fol.  49,  from  the  Accounts  of  Dr.  Sancho  de  Matienzo,  Treasurer 
of  the  Casa  de  la  Contratacion,  shows  that  Cabot  received,  6  May, 
1519,  25,000  mvd.  as  one-third  of  his  salary.  Harrisse,  Cabot, 
402,  conje£lures  that  this  included  his  emoluments  as  naval  cap- 
tain. In  December,  1522,  Cabot  told  Contarini — No.  76 — th.it 
his  salary  was  50,000  mvd.  as  naval  captain,  50,000  as  chief  pilot, 
and  25,000  for  expenses.  (i'3) 

For  other  details  in  Cabot's  Spanish  service,  see  Cabot,  Nos 
23-38  and  57. 

FUGGER   OF  ANTWERP. 

Extracts  from  the  account  books  kept  by  the  great  commercial 
house  of  the  Fuggers  in  Antwerp,  relating  to  the  moneys  paid  to 
Sebastian  Cabot  for  a  map  which  he  failed  to  deliver,  are  quoted  in 
the  notes  to  Haebler,  No.  369. 

FUST  CHRONICLE. 

See  note  under  Toby,  No.  222. 

GALVANO  (Antonio)  Tratado.  Que  compos  o  nobre 
&  no-tauel  capitao  Antonio  Galuao,  dos  diuersos  &  des- 
uayrados  caminhos,  por  onde  nos  tempos  passados  a  pi- 
menta  &  especearia  veyo  da  India  as  nossas  partes,  &  assi 
de  todos  OS  des  cobrimentos  antigos  &  modernos,  que 
sao  feitos  ate  a  era  de  mil  &  qui-nhentos  &  cincoenta. 
Com  osnomes  particulares  das  pessoas  que  os  fi-zeram  :  & 
em  que  tempos  &  as  suas  alturas,  obra  cer  to  muy  notauel 
&  copiosa. — [Colophon]  Imprimio  se  em  casa  de  Ioh?m  da 
Barreira,  impressor  del  Rey  nosso  senhor.  Aos  quinze  de 
Dezembro.  De  mil  &  quinhetos  &  sessenta  &  tres  An 
nos  [Lisl>oa]  (114) 

i2mo.     T  -f  3  11  4-  11  1-80. 

Reprinted  in  Lisbon,  1731  ;  and  again  by  the  Hakluyt  Society, 
edited  by  Vice- Admiral  Bethune,  London,  1862. 

Galvano,  whose  supposed  acquaintance  with  the  1544  Cabot 
map — see  Deane,  No.  327,  p.  33;  Harrisse,  Cabot,  64 — must 
have  been  supplemented  by  independent  Spanish  or  Portuguese 
information,  states  on  1.  25,  pp.  87-89  of  1862  edition,  that 
(Sebastian)  Cabot,  an  Italian  living  in  England,  had  surmised  that 
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England,  and  much  nearer  to  that  country  than  to  Portugal :  No 
anno  de  1496  .  .  .  vendo  em  huapomacomoestas  jlhasacima  ditas 
estao  quasi  em  hu  paralelo  &  altura,  &  muyto  mais  perto  de  sua 
terra  hua  a  outra.  Henry  VII.  was  persuaded  by  his  arguments  to 
fit  out  two  ships  with  300  men.  Starting  in  the  spring,  they  sailed 
westward  and  found  land  at  45",  whence  they  coasted  north  to  60", 
where  the  days  were  eighteen  hours  long  and  the  nights  clear  and 
bright.  It  was  very  cold,  and  they  met  with  great  islands  of  ice, 
but  no  land,  the  soundings  giving  from  yj  to  100  fathoms:  forao 
por  ella  ate  sessenta  onde  os  dias  sam  de  dezoyto  horas,  &  as  noytes 
muy  claras  &  serenas.  Auia  aqui  muyta  frialdade  &  ylhas  de 
neue,  que  nao  achauam  fundo  em  setenta,  oitenta,  cem  bragas,  mas 
achaua  grandes  regelos,  do  que  tambem  se  arrf^ceaua.  Finding 
that  the  coast  trended  eastwards,  they  turned  back  and  coasted  to 
38°,  watching  every  inlet  for  a  passage  through  to  the  other  side ; 
descobrindo  toda  a  baya,  rio,  enseada,  pa  ver  se  passaua  da  outra 
banda;  Hakluyt's  translator  rendered  this,  "  discouering  all  the 
Bay  and  riuer  named  Deseado.''  Galvano  notes  that  some  said 
that  Cabot  sailed  south  as  far  as  Florida,  which  is  25°. 

There  is  an  account  of  the  voyage  to  La  Plata  on  11.  54-55,  pp. 
169-170  in  1862  edition. 

Translated  into  English,  as : 

GALVANO  (Antonio)  The  discoveries  of  the  World 
from  their  first  original!  vnto  the  yeere  of  our  Lord  1555. 
Briefly  written  in  the  Por-tugall  tongue  by  Antonie  Gal- 
vano, Gouernour  of  Ternate,  the  chiefe  Island  of  the 
Malucos :  Corrected,  quoted,  and  now  published  in 
English  by  Richard  Hakluyt. — Londini  1601.  (115) 

Small  4to.    T  +  5  11  +  pp  1-97. 

Reprinted  in  the  Harleian  ColleSlion  (or  Oxford  foyages), — London, 
1745,  ii.  353-402  J  J.  S.  Clarke,  Progress  of  Maritime  Discovery, 
— London,  1803,!,  Appendix,  2-74;  Hakluyt,  No.  132,  181 1,  iv. 
395-450;  and  with  the  Portuguese  text  published  by  the  Hakluyt 
Society  in  1862. 

The  Cabot  1496  narrative  is  on  pp.  32-33.  Hakluyt  never  saw 
the  original  text,  as  his  correspondents  in  Lisbon  were  unable  to 
secure  a  copy  of  it  for  him,  and  this  volume  wa«  printed  from  an 
anonymous  manuscript  translation  which  fell  into  his  hands. 
Hakluyt  corredled  some  evident  blunders,  and  added  information 
which  came  wi.'Iiin  his  own  knowledge.  Thus  he  changed  Gal- 
vano's  Sebastian  to  John  Cabot,  and,  in  the  La  Plata  narrative, 
p.  66,  added  to  Galvano's  Sebastian  Cabota  a  Venetian,  "by  his 
father,  but  borne  at  Bristol  in  England." 

Hakluyt's  version  of  Galvano  was  used  by  Thomas  Prince  in 
the  compihtion  of  his  Chronological  History  of  Ne-iv  England, — Bos- 
ton, 1736,  p  80;  reprinted  by  S.  G.  Drake, — Boston,  1826,  reprinted 
in  1852,  p.  I'a. 


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GARCIA  (Diego)  Memoria  de  la  navegacion  que  hice 
este  viaje  en  la  parte  del  mar  Oceano  dende  que  sali  de  la 
Ciudad  de  la  Coruna,  que  alli  me  fue  entregada  la  armada 
por  los  Oficiales  de  S.  M.,  que  fue  en  el  ano  de  1526. 

(116) 

Manuscript  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies,  at  Seville,  Leg,  3  de 
los  rotulados  de  Descripciones  y  poblaciones ;  papeUs  lU'vadoi  de 
Simancas. 

Printed  by  Varnhagen  in  the  Revista  Trimensal  do  Instituto 
historico  e  geographico  do  Brazil — Rio  de  Janeiro,  1852,  xv.  6-14. 

This  account  of  a  rival  expedition  contains  numerous  references 
to  the  exploration  of  La  Plata  by  Savastian  Gavoto.  The  two 
parties  were  on  the  river  at  the  same  time. 

GAULLE  (Francis). 

The  map  in  Hakluyt's  edition  of  Peter  Martyr, — Paris, 
1587,  which  is  said  to  have  been  drawn  by  Gaulle,  is  described  as 
No.  162. 

GAYANGOS  (Pascual  de). 
See  Bergenroth,  No.  9. 

GILBERT  (Humphrey)  A  discovrse  Of  a  Discouerie 
for  a  new  Pas-sage  to  Cataia.  Written  by  Sir  Hvm-frey 
Gilbert — London^  ^57^j  Aprilis.  12.  (n?) 

8vo.     T  +  4.3  11  +  map. 

Reprinted  by  Hakluyt,  Principall Navigations,  1589,  S97-6io; 
Voyages,  iii.  11-24.. 

Written  before  1 566. 

On  1.  sig,  Diij  is  the  account  of  how  "  Sebastian  Gabota  .  .  . 
sailed  very  far  westward,  with  a  quarter  of  the  North,  on  the 
Northside  of  Terra  de  Labrador,  the  eleuenth  of  lune,  vntil  he 
came  to  the  Septentrional  latitude  of  d/i  ...  he  would  haue  gone 
to  Cataia,  if  the  Mutinie  of  the  Maister  &  Mariners,  had  not  ben." 
Compare  Ramvsio,  No.  196^ 

The  charts  mentioned  in  this  passage  are  described  as  No.  48. 

GODERYK  (John). 

The  payment  made  to  Goderyk  of  Foly  in  Cornwall  for  con- 
dufling  Cabot  from  Spain  to  England,  is  noted  under  Brewer, 
No.  14''. 

GOMARA  (Francisco  Lopez  de)  Primera  y  segunda 
parte  de  la  his-toria  general  de  las  Indias  con  todo  el 
descubrimiento  y  cosas  nota  bles  que  ban  acaecido  dende 


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que  se  ganaron  ata  el  ano  de  1551.     Con  la  coquista  de 
Mexico  y  de  la  nueua  Espaiia — En  Caragoca,  1553  [1552]. 

(118) 

Folio.     T  +  map  +  11  ii-cxxii  +  T  +  11  ii-cxl. 

Fifteen  editions  at  least  of  Gomara's  three  works  were  printed 
during  the  years  1552  to  1555.  The  preferable  reference  is  to  the 
ismo  edition  printed  at  Antwerp  in  1554  for  Juan  Steelsio  and 
Juan  Bellero,  as  this  is  the  earliest  edition  with  numbered  chapters. 

Translations  into  French  and  German  had  been  reprinted  a 
score  of  times  before  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  century.  English 
versions  of  the  Conquest  of  the  Indies  were  printed  at  London  in 
1578  and  1596. 

An  account  of  these  various  editions,  which  is  "said  to  have  been 
drawn  up  by  Mr.  Brevoort,"  is  in  Sabin,  Diilionary  of  Books  re- 
lating to  America, — Neiv  York,  1875,  vii.  305-312. 

For  "  Sebastian  Gaboto  y  su  nauigation,"  see  cap.  xxxix,  Los 
Bacallaos,  fo.  xx,  1552  edition.  Indexed  under  "Sebastian"  in 
other  editions.  Eden,  Decades,  No.  96,  p.  318,  or  Arber,  No.  6, 
p.  343,  gives  an  English  version.  Also  in  Winsor,  America,  iii. 
26-27,  "correfted  by  the  original,"  and  in  Nicholls,  Bristol,  No. 
469,  iii.  296. 

The  La  Plata  expedition,  with  the  planting  of  52  grains  of 
wheat  which  yielded  50,000  in  four  months — see  No.  96— is  de- 
scribed in  cap.  Ixxxviii,  fo.  xlix,  1552  edition. 

Gomara  frequented  the  Spanish  court  in  his  capacity  of  secretary 
to  Hernan  Cortes  between  1540  and  1546,  and  must  have  had 
many  opportunities  for  mt^eting  Cabot.  His  narrative  closely  re- 
sembles that  of  Martyr. 

GONZALES  DE  PUEBLA  (Ruy). 

A  dispatch  from  the  senior  Spanish  ambassador  in  England  to 
his  sovereigns,  dated  London,  zi  January,  1496,  contained  the 
earliest  recorded  reference  to  Cabot's  efforts  to  interest  the  English 
king  in  the  exploitation  of  the  Indies.  See  notes  to  No.  106,  for 
the  reply  to  this  report.  The  text  of  the  dispatch  has  not  yet  been 
found.  ("9) 

GONZALES  DE  PUEBLA  (Ruy)     [Dispatch  to  Fer- 
dinand and  Isabella.  (120) 

The  original  manuscript,  in  cipher,  is  at  Simancas,  Patronato 
Real;  Capitulaciones  con  Inglaterra,  Leg.  a,  fol.  198. 

The  manuscript  is  not  dated,  but  was  presumably  written  about 
25  July,  1498,  the  date  of  the  accompanying  report  described  under 
Ayala,  No.  7. 

A  Spanish  text  is  in  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  328-9,  with 
mistakes  correfted  in  his  Cabot,  395-6 ;  reprinted  in  Weare, 
Cabot,  159-160 


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The  reference  to  Cabot's  second  voyage  is  merely  an  ofHcial 
summary  of  the  longer  report  written  by  Ayala ;  it  is  interesting 
as  suggesting  the  points  in  the  latter  which  seemed  important  to 
the  older  diplomat. 

GRAFTON  (Richard)  A  Chronicle  at  large  and  meerc 
History  of  the  afFayres  of  Englande  and  Kinges  of  the 
same,  dedu-ced  f;o;n  the  Creation  of  the  worlde,  vnto  the 
first  ha-bitation  of  thys  Islande :  and  so  by  contynuance 
vnto  the  first  yere  of  the  reigne  of  our  most  deere  and 
souereigne  Lady  Queene  Eliza-beth :  colledled  out  of 
sundry  Auc-thors,  whose  names  are  expressed — 1569 
[London].  (121) 

Folio.  2  volumes  (usually  bound  together).  T  +  5  11  +  pp 
1-192  +  -).  11;   T  +  pp  1-1369  +  21  11. 

The  title  of  volume  ii.  is  dated  1568  ;  the  colophon  reads  :    Im- 
printed at  London  .  .  .  Anno.  1569.  the  last  of  March. 
Reprinted  as : 

GRAFTON  (Richard)  Grafton's  Chronicle  ;  or,  History 
of  England.  To  which  is  ac'ded  his  Table  of  the  Bailiffs, 
Sheriffs,  and  Mayors,  of  the  City  of  London.  From  the 
year  1189,  to  1558,  inclusive — Ljndon ;   1809.  (122) 

Large  4to.  2  volumes.  T  -f  pp  iii-xvi  +  677  ;  T  +  i  1  +  pp 
568  +  26  11. 

The  reference  to  Cabot  is  on  p,  1323  of  the  first,  or  ii.  531-2  of 
1 809  edition, under  the  year  1552  :  "Aboutthis  time  there  were  three 
noble  ships  set  forth  and  furnished  for  the  great  aduenture  of  the 
vnknowne  voyage  into  the  East,  by  the  North  seas.  The  great 
doer  &  encourager  of  which  voyage  was  Sebastian  Gaboto  an 
Englisheman,  borne  at  Bristow,  but  was  the  sonne  of  a  Genoway 
.  .  .  now  the  said  voyage  and  trade  is  greatly  aduaunced,  &  the 
Mar'^hants  aduenturing  that  way  are  newly  by  ail  of  parliamet 
encoporated."  (H.  N.  S.) 

Grafton  was  the  royal  printer  to  Edward  VL,  in  whose  court 
Cabot  is  said  to  have  delivered  leftures  on  cosmography.  See 
Harrisse,  Cabot,  18.  (122*) 

Cabot  is  not  mentioned  in  the  reference  to  the  discovery  of  the 
Muscovy  trade,  on  fol.  xcii.  of: 

A  Manuell  of  the  Chronicles  of  Englande,  ...  to  this  yere 
of  our  Lorde.  1565.  Abridged  and  coUec-ted  by  Richard 
Grafton — Lon-don.  ('^3) 

32mo.     T  +  1 1  11  +  fol.  i-c  +  8.  (H.  N.  S.) 

GRAFTON  (Richard)  Graftons  Abridgement  of  the 
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Sm.  8vo.      r  +  35  il  +  li  i-ioo  +  4.  11. 
Reprinted  by  Tottyl  in  1572:  T  +  31  11  +  11  i-ii6  +  40. 
The  passage  printed  in  1569,  No.  121,  was  altered  to  read,  fol. 
160:  "Sebastian  Gabota  an  englishman  .  .  .  but  his  father  was  a 
strager,'* 
,         See  notes  under  Cooper,  No.  81. 

GRAJALES  (Doctor). 

The  authorship  of  the  legends  on  the  1 544.  Cabot  map,  ascribed 
by  Harrisse  to  a  certain  Dr.  Grajales,  is  discussed  in  the  notes  to 
No.  56  on  pp.  22-23. 

HAKLUYT  (Richard)  Divers  voyages  touching  the 
discouerie  of  America,  and  the  Hands  adiacent  vnto  the 
same,  made  first  of  all  by  our  Englishmen,  and  afterward 
by  the  French-men  and  Britons :  And  certaine  notes  of 
aduertisements  for  obserua-tions,  necessarie  for  such  as 
shall  heereafter  make  the  like  attempt — Lon-don  1582. 

(125) 

Small  4.to.     T  +  58  11  +  2  maps. 

Reprinted  by  the  Hakiuyt  Society,  edited  by  John  Winter  Jones, 
—  London,  1850  ;  described  as  No.  424. 

The  maps  are  described  under  LOK,  No.  156;  and  Thorne, 
No.  218. 

The  Cabot  patent  of  March,  1495-6,  No.  1 36,  is  on  11.  sig.  A- A4, 
pp.  19-26  of  1 8  50  edition,  together  with  "  the  note  out  of  Fabian," 
No.  105,  and  the  quotation  from  the  preface  of  Ramusio,  No.  196, 
of  which  Hakiuyt  says  in  the  Epistle  Dedicatorie,  that  Sebastian 
Gabot  wrote  "  that  he  veryly  beleeued  that  all  the  North  part  of 
America  is  diuided  into  Ilandes."  These  sources  end  with  the 
note  that  shortly  shall  come  out  in  print  all  Sebastian  Gabotes 
"  owne  mappes  ^  discourses  drawne  and  written  by  himselfe,  which 
are  in  the  custodie  of  the  worshipfull  master  Willia  Worthington 
one  of  her  Maiesties  Pensioners,  who  (because  so  worthie  monu- 
mentes  shoulde  not  be  buried  in  perpetuall  obliuion)  is  very  willing 
to  suffer  them  to  be  ouerseene  and  published  in  as  good  order  as 
may  bee,  to  the  encouragement  and  benefite  of  our  Countriemen." 

HAKLUYT  (Richard)  A  particuler  discourse  concern- 
inge  the  greate  necessitie  and  manifolde  comody-ties  that 
are  like  to  growe  to  this  Realme  of  Englande  by  the 
Westerne  discoueries  lately  attempted  Wiitten  in  the  yere 
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and  diredlion  of  the  righte  worshipfull  Mr.  Walter  Raghly 
nowe  knight  before  the  comynge  home  of  his  twoo 
barkes  .  .  .  (126) 

Folio  manuscript,  in  the  library  of  the  late  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps  ; 
65  11. 

Printed  by  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  ColleSicr,  srcond 
series,  ii.,  as  : 

Documentary  history  of  the  State  of  Maine.  Vol.  ii.  .  .  .  Intro- 
du6tion  By  Leonard  Woods.  .  .  .  Edited  By  Charles  Deane, 
— Cambridge,  1877.  ('*?) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-lx'  +  253  +  5  facsimiles. 

Reprinted  by  GoLDsMii ,  No.  133, — Edinburgh,  1890,  xiii. 
{America,  ii.)  169-276. 

In  this  discourse,  which  was  written  with  the  design  of  influencing 
Queen  Elizabeth  to  grant  Ralegh  a  patent  for  colonization, — see  Dee, 
No.  88 — Hakluyt  constantly  insists  upon  England's  right  to  control 
northern  America,  because  oF  priority  of  discovery  by  Cabot.  The 
arguments  do  not  suggest  any  mformation  not  known  to  Martyr, 
Ramusio  (apparently  in  La  FoPELLiNifiRE's  French  version),  and 
Eden,  with  the  exception  of  Cabot's  "ownc  mappc,"  No.  39*  and 
55'',  "  In  which  mappe,  in  the  chapiter  of  Newfoundelande,  there  in 
Latyn  is  put  downe  .  .  .  the  very  day,  and  the  firste  lande  which 
they  sawe  ...  as  Clement  Adams  saieth,  1494.  in  the  chapiter  of 
Gabotts  mapp  De  terra  nova,"  pp.  122-128,  1877  edition. 

The  other  interesting  references  to  Cabot  are  on  pp.  19,  86,  10 1 
and  no.     See  Mr.  Dean'^'s  notes  on  pp.  i92.i95  and  222-228. 

See  Martyr,  No.  161,  for  the  edition  of  the  Decade^  edited  by 
Hakluyt, — Paris,  1587. 

HAKLUYT  (Richard)  The  principall  navigations,  voia- 
ges  and  discoveries  of  the  English  nation,  made  by  Sea  or 
ouer  Land,  .  .  .  at  any  time  within  the  compasse  of  these 
1500.  yeeres :  Deuided  into  three  seuera-  parts,  .  .  .  The 
first  .  .  .  Asia  [and]  Africa  .  .  .  The  second  ...  to- 
wards the  North  and  Northeast  .  .  .  The  third  and  last, 
including  the  English  valiant  attempts  in  searching  al-most 
all  the  corners  of  the  vaste  and  new  world  of  America, 
from  73.  de-grees  of  Northerly  latitude  Southward,  to 
the  Streight  of  Magellan  .  .  .  further  then  euer  any 
Christian  hitherto  hath  pierced  ...  By  Richard  Hakluyt 
Master  of  Artes,  and  Student  sometime  of  Christ-church 
in  Oxford — London  by  George  Bishop  and  Ralph  New- 
berie.  Deputies  to  Christopher  Barker,  Printer  to  the 
Queenes  most  excellent  Maiestie.   1589.  (128) 


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Cited  as  Hakluyt,  Frincipall  Na'vigations. 

In  this  volume  Hakluyt  reprinted  the  Cabot  paragraphs  in  his 
Divert  Foyages  on  pp.  509-516,  adding  the  Roils  record  of  the 
{>atent  of  3  February,  1498,  No,  14.0  ;  the  extraft  from  Adams' 
wdiiion  of  Cabot's  map,  No.  55'' ;  the  "discourse  to  Butrigarius, 
taken  out  of  the  second  volume  of  Ramusius,"  but  really  from  the 
first,  Nc/.  194;  evtrafts  from  Martyr  and  Gomara  ;  the  voiagc  of 
Sir  Thomas  Pert  and  Sebastian  Cabot,  about  1516,  to  Brasil,  S. 
Domingo,  and  S.  lohn  de  porto  ricco  ;  and,  pp.  519-520,  the  pension 
granted  by  Edwa/d  VI.,  No.  99.  The  documents  which  prove 
the  connexion  betwsn  the  Muscovy  Company  and  Cabot,  "  the 
chiefest  setter  foortl.  jf  this  iourncy,"  are  on  pp.  302-311. 
This  colle6lion  was  expanded  into  three  volumes  entitled  : 

HAKLUYT  (Richard)  The  principal  navi-gations, 
voiages,  traffiqves  and  disco-ueries  of  the  English  Nation 
.  .  .  This  first  Volume  containing  the  woorthy  Dis- 
coueries,  &c.  of  the  English  toward  the  North  and  North- 
east .  .  .  Together  with  many  notable  monuments  and 
testimo-nies  of  .  .  .  this  realme  of  England  in  former 
ages  .  .  .  the  true  state  of  Island  .  .  .  the  memorable 
defeate  of  the  Spanish  huge  Armada,  Anno  1588  ...  By 
Richard  Haklvyt — London,  Bishop,  Newberie  and  Barker, 
1598.  (129) 


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Reissued  the  following  year,  with  title  altered  to  suppress  the 
Voyage  to  C^diz,  pp.  607.619,  and  to  include  the  second  volume. 

HAKLUYT  (Richard)  The  second  volvme  of  the  prin- 
cipal na-vigations  .  .  .  through  and  within  the  Streight 
of  Gibralter  ...  By  Richard  Haklvyt  Preacher. — London 

1599-  (130) 

Folio.     T  +  7  11  -f  pp  1-312  +  1-204. 

HAKLUYT  (Richard)  The  third  and  last  volvme  of  the 
voy-ages  ...  of  the  English  Nation,  and  in  some  few 
places,  where  they  have  not  been,  of  strangers  ...  to  all 
parts  of  the  Newfound  world  of  America,  or  the  West 
Indies,  from  73.  degrees  of  Northerly  to  57.  of  Southerly 
latitude  .  .  .  Collected  by  Richard  Haklvyt — London 
1600.  (13O 

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This  whole  work  (Nos,  129-131)  was  reprinted  in  : 

Hakluyt's  CoLLECTi'^^'  '  *he  early  Voyages,  Travels,  and 
Discoveries,  of  the  .  Nation.     A  new  edition,    with 

Additions  .  .  .  — ^^n^^iis  for  R.  H.  Evans,  &c.  1809 
(-1812).  (132) 

Quarto.   5  volumes.     Edition  of  325  copies. 

Besides  the  suppressed  portions  of  the  original  edition,  this  in- 
cluded in  the  supplement  to  the  fourth  volume  and  in  the  fifth 
"  Curious,  rare,  and  early  voyages  .  .  .  chiefly  published  by 
Hakluyt  or  at  his  suggestion." 

The  Voyages  were  republished  by  Edmund  Goldsmid, — Edin- 
burgh, 1885-1890,  sixteen  volumes  in  8vo.  An  editorial  note,  vol.  xii. 
7  {America,  i.  7),  says,  "  I  have,  in  my  complete  Edition  of  Hakluyt's 
Voyages,  arranged  the  Contents  of  his  first  two  volumes  in  the 
order  he  would  have  desired,  had  he  not  '  lacked  sufficient  store.' " 

Volumes  xii-xv  of  this  edition  were  also  issued  with  a  separate 
titi''  : 

The  voyages  of  the  English  nation  to  America  Before  the  year 
1600,  from  Hakluyt's  colleftion  of  voyages  Edited  by  Edmund 
Goldsmid — £(//»i«r^^,  Goldsmid,  1889  (-1890).  ('33) 

This  coUeftion,  Nos.  129-131,  is  cited  as  Hakluyt,  Voyages. 
The  first  volume  contains,  pp.  226-230,  Cabot's  Ordinances  for 
the  voyage  to  Cathay,  No.  58  5  see  pp.  167-274.,  reprinted  from  No. 
128,  and  the  note  under  Burrough,  No.  18,  for  Cabot's  con- 
nection with  the  Muscovy  Compaiy.  The  Cabot  passages  from 
the  Prinapall  Na'vigations  (1589)  are  reprinted  in  the  third  volume 
of  iht  Voyages,  pp.  4-11,498-499;  Evans'  edition,  iii,  25-32,  591- 
593  ;    Goldsmid  edition,  xii.  {America,  i.)  19-34,  xv.  (iv.)  200-203. 

"  A  special  note  concerning  the  currents  of  the  sea  betweene  the 
Cape  of  Buena  Esperanqa  and  the  coast  of  Brasilia,  giuen  by  a 
French  Pilot  to  Sir  lohn  Yorke  knight,  before  Sebastian  Cabote  j 
which  pilot  had  frequented  the  coasts  of  Brasilia  eighteene  voyages  " 
is  in  the  Voyages,  iii.  719,  (133") 

Portions  of  these  passages  relating  to  Cabot's  North  American 
discoverKs  are  reprinted  in  Mead,  Old  South  Leaflet,  37, — Boston, 
1895.  Extrafts  describing  the  discovery  in  narrative  form  are  in 
Thomas  Wentworth  Higginson's  Book  of  American  Explorers, — 
Boston,  1877,  55-59.  (133b) 

Hakluyt  in  1601  edited  an  English  translation  of  Galvano, 
Discoveries,  which  is  described  as  No.  115. 


B  1  • 


HART  (Albert  Bushnell)  American  History  told  by 
Contemporaries.  Volume  I.  Era  of  Colonization  1492- 
1689.  Edited  by  Albert  Bushnell  Hart — New  York., 
Macmillan,  i^;7.  (i34) 

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"John  Cabot  and  the  First  English  Voyage  to  America  (1+97) 
by  Lorenzo  Pasqualigo  and  Raiinondo  di  Soncino.  (Translated 
by  Clements  R.  Markham,  1893  ),"  pp.  69-72.  There  is  nothing 
in  this  heading  nor  in  the  extracts  which  it  introduces,  to  justify  a 
curious  assumption  in  the  English  Historical  Revienv,  January,  1898, 
xiii.  181-183,  that  Professor  Hart  *' praflically  .iccepts  "  the  propo- 
sition that  Cabot  made  only  a  single  voyage  to  the  North  American 
coast.    See  Payne,  No.  474.. 

See  Channing,  No.  302. 

HART  (Albert  Bushnell)      Source-Boole  of  American 

History.      Edited    for   Schools    and    Readers    by    Albert 

Bushnell  Hart,  with  practical  introductions. — New  Tork^ 

Macmillan,  1899.  (*34*) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xlvi  +  407  +  4  facsimiles. 

Eden's  version  of  Martyr's  account  of  a  Cabot  voyage — see  No. 

1 59 — is  on  pp.  4-6. 

HAZARD   (Ebenezer)     Historical  Colledtions  consisting 

of  state  papers,  and  other  authentic  documents ;  intended 

as  materials  for  an  history  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

By  Ebenezer  Hazard — Philadelphia  mdccxcii.  (^SS) 

4to.     Two  volumes.     T  +  i  1  +  pp  1-639  +  J' >  T  +  i  1  + 

pp  1-654. 

Volume  I.  contains,  pp.  9-10  and  23,  the  Latin  texts,  from 
Hakluyt,  of  the  Letters  Patent,  No.  136,  and  of  the  pensions 
grantef'  '  y  Edward  VI.,  No.  99. 


HENRY  Vn., 
Cabot  et  Hiiis 


KING  OF  ENGLAND     Projohanne 
suis.     Super  Terra  Incognita  Investiganda. 


(136) 
These    Letters  Patent,  in   response  to  a  petition  from  "John 

Cabotto  citezen  of  Venes,  Lewes,  Sebastyan  and  San6to  his  sonneys," 

were  granted  at  Westminster,  5  March,  1496. 

The  original  record  of  the  petition  and  the  Letters  Patent  is  in 

the  Public  Record  Office,  London,  French  Roll,  1 1  Henry  ^H.,  memb. 

A  reduced  photograph  of  a  portion  of  this  original  is  in  Scribner's 
Magazine,  July,  1897,  xxvt.  74;  see  note  under  Dufferin,  No. 
338. 

The  Petition,  of  which  the  original  is  in  the  Record  Office,  Pri'vji 
Seals  and  Chancery  signed  Fills,  ii  Hen.  FU.,  No.  51,  was  first 
printed  by  Desimoni,  No.  329, — Genoa,  188 1,  p.  47. 

The  Letters  Patent  were  printed  by  Hakluyt  in  1582,  with  an 
English  translation;  by  Rymer,  Foedera,  1741,  v.  pt.  iv.  89; 
Chalmers,    Political  Annals, — London,   1780,    7-8,    in   English  j 


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Hazard,  Historical  ColU^ions, — Philatielp/iiaf  1792,  i.  9-10,  in 
Latin  ;  and  in  most  of  the  later  Cabot  volumes. 

Henry  VII.  authorized  the  Cabotsto  take  five  ships  at  their  own 
expense  and  make  explorations  under  the  English  flag  in  any  direc- 
tion except  the  south  :  suis  et  eorum  propriis  sumptibus  et  expensis 
.  .  .  au6^oritatem  navigandi  ad  omnes  partes,  regiones  et  sinus 
maris  orientalis,  occidentalis,  et  septentrionalis.  They  were  per- 
mitted to  occupy  any  lands  not  previously  known  to  the  Christian 
world,  of  which  they  might  be  able  to  secure  possession.  All 
commodities  brought  by  them  from  the  new  found  lands  were  to  be 
entered  at  the  port  of  Bristol.  One-fiffh  of  the  i.icome,  after  the 
payment  of  all  expenses,  was  to  be  paid  to  the  king.  Freedom 
from  all  customs  dues  on  imports  was  granted,  together  with  a 
monopoly  of  the  trade  thither. 

John  Cabot's  original  copy  of  these  Letters  i*atent  having  dis- 
appeared, Sebastian  in  1550  petitioned  for  the  issue  of  a  new  copy. 
He  i.ceived  this  on  June  4,  on  condition  that  it  should  be  returned 
in  case  the  original  should  ever  be  found.  The  paragraphs  added  in 
1550  to  the  text  of  the  1496  document  are  prmteu  in  Harrisse, 
Cfl^o/,  449-450.  (137) 

HENRY  VII.     To  hym  that  founde  the  new  Isle,  ;^io. 
10  August,  1497.  (13^) 

This  item,  from  a  copy  made  by  Mr.  Craven  Orde  from  the 
original  entries  of  the  privy  purse  expenses  of  Henry  VH.  in  the 
K.membrancer  Office,  is  in  the  British  Museum,  y^<M/.  Afi".?.  7099, 
12  Henrie  ^11.,  fo.  41. 

Printed  in  Nicolas,  Excerpta  Historica, — London,  S.  Bentley, 
1831,  p.  113  ;  and  in  Biddle,  No.  261,  p.  79,  with  an  interesting 
note. 

This  entry  is  accepted  as  convincing  proof  that  Cabot  returned 
from  the  new  world  before  10  August,  1497,  on  which  day  he  is 
supposed  to  have  presented  the  news  of  his  success  to  the  king  in 
person  in  London. 

HENRY  VII.    Memorandum  .  .  .  Yeuen  vndre  our  Pryue 
Seal  at  o""  paloys  of  Westminster  the  xiij"'  day  ofDecembre 


The  xiij"'  yereof  our  Reigne 


(139) 


The  original  record  of  this  order  is  in  the  Public  Record  Office, 
London,  Pri'vy  Seals,  Dec.  1 3  Hen.  FIL,  No.  40. 

There  is  a  reduced  photograph  in  Scribner's  Magazine,  July,  1897, 
xxii.  75. 

First  printed  in  1884  by  Deane  in  Winsor,  America,  iii.  56, 

This  notification  directs  John  Morton,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
to  issue  the  necessary  Letters  Patent  under  the  great  seal,  inasmuch 
as  "  for  certaine  consideracions  vs  specially  moevyng  haue  yeuen 
and  graunted  vnto  our  Welbiloued  John  Calbot  of  the  parties  of 


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Venice  an  annuitie  or  anuel  rent  of  twenty  pounds  sterling  To  be 
had  and  yerely  pcrcevued  from  the  tcast  of  thanunciacion  ot  o'  lady 
last  passed  (i.e.  25  March  1497)  during  our  pleasur  ot  our  Cus- 
tumes  .  .  .  in  our  Poort  of  Bristowe." 

HENRY  VII.  D  licencia  Caboto  Memorandum  quod 
tertio  die  februarij  anno  regni  regis  Hcnrici  septimi  xiij 
ista  billa  deliberata  fuit  .  .   .  apud  Westmonastcrium. 

(140) 

The  original  manuscripts  are  in  the  Public  Record  Ortice,  Lon- 
don :  in  Latin,  French  Roll,  1 3  Hen.  '/II.,  No.  439,  m.  i  ;  in  English, 
Chancery  Signed  Bills,  i  3  Hen.  f^IL,  No.  6. 

A  reduced  photograph  of  the  English  is  in  Scribner's  Mugaxine, 
Julv,  1897,  xxii.  72-73, 

A  copy  of  the  petition  in  response  to  which  these  •'  new  Letters 
Patent  "  were  granted,  precedes  the  English  text.  ('40") 

Hakluyt  in  1589,  and  again  ten  years  later  (Nos.  128-131),  in- 
dicated this  document,  but  its  significance  was  not  appreciated 
until  BiDDLE  in  1831  (No.  261,  pp.  74-75)  first  printed  the  English 
text,  which  was  reprinted  in  the  fVestminster  Revie-iv,  January,  1832, 
xvi.  33-34;  also  in  Jones,  No.  424,  pp.  Ixii-lxxiii  j  in  Corry, 
Bristol,  i.  311-312  ;  and  the  later  Cabot  volumes. 

The  Latin  text  was  first  printed  by  Harrisse,  Cabot,  393-394 ; 
also  in  Weare,  No.  558,  pp.  158-159,  with  the  abbreviations  as  in 
the  original  manuscript. 

These  new  Letters  Patent  authorize  John  Kabote  or  Kabbatto 
Veneciam  to  take  up,  anywhere  within  the  English  domain,  six 
ships  of  not  more  than  two  liundred  tons,  with  their  armament  and 
fittings,  under  the  same  conditions  as  if  they  were  being  taken  for 
the  royal  use,  and  to  condufl  these,  with  any  who  wished  to  ac- 
company him,  "  to  the  londe  and  lies  of  late  founde  by  the  seid 
John  in  oure  name  and  by  o'  comaundmente." 

HENRY  VII.  [Warrant  addressed  To  the  Tresourer  and 
Chaubrelaines  of  oure  Eschequier  ...  at  oure  Manor  of 
Shene  the  xxij  day  of  fFebruary  the  xiij  yere  of  oure  reign. 

(141) 
The  original  manuscript  is  in  the  Record  Office,  London,  ff^ar- 
rant;  for  Issues,  13  Hen.  FII. 

First  printed  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  394;  also  in  Prowse,  New- 
Joundland,  12. 

This  warrant  direfts  that,  "  as  we  be  enformed  the  said  John 
Cabojte  is  delaied  of  his  payement,"  therefore  two  tailles  or  tallies 
of  ten  pounds  each  shall  be  levied  upon  Richard  Meryk  and 
Arthure  Kemys — see  Nos.  1 51-153 — annually  and  delivered  to 
Caboote  "  to  be  had  of  our  gift  by  way  of  rewarde  without  prest 
or  cny  other  charge  to  be  sette  upon  hym.'' 


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HENRY  VII.  March  22.  To  Lanslot  Thiridll  of  Lon- 
don, apon  a  Prest  for  his  Shipp  going  towards  the  new 
Ilande,  L.  20.  (H^) 

Transcript  from  the  Privy  Purse  Expenses  of  Henry  VII.,  British 
Museum,  AJJit.  MSS.  No.  7099,  fol.  45 — see  note  to  No.  138. 

Printed  in  Nicolas,  Excerpta,  116,  and  in  most  of  the  accounts 
of  Cabot's  14.98  voyage. 

The  Privy  Purse  accounts  also  contain  entries,  of  about  the 
same  date  and  import : 

Itm  delivd  to  Launcelot  Thirkill  going  towards  the  new  He  in 
Prest,  £20.  (142") 

April  I.  Itm  to  Thomes  Bradley  and  Launcelot  Thirkill  going 
to  the  newe  He,  £30  (H^^) 

To  Jn  Carter  going  to  the  Newe  He  in  rewd,40/.  $d,         (142*^) 

Launcelot  Thirkill  again  appears  in  London,  6  June,  1501,  when 
it  was  recorded  that  he,  together  with  Thomas  Par,  Walter  Strik- 
land  and  Thomas  Mydelton,  was  "bounden  in  ij  obligations  to 
pay  at  Whitsontyde  next  comyns  xxli,  .  .  .  for  lyverye  of  Flem- 
ynges  landes  " — British  Museum,  AdJit.  MSS.  No.zi,^So,fo.  35  : 
printed  by  Desimoni  and  Harrisse,  and  by  Beazley,  No.  256, 
p.  272,  who  correfts  previous  misprintings.  ('42"*) 

Harrisse  and  others  suppose  these  entries  to  show  that  Thirkill 
was  "evidently  a  companion  of  John  Cabot,  and  owner  of  one  of 
the  vessels  in  the  squadron  .  .  .  this  shows,  at  all  events,  that  one 
ship  at  least  returned  from  the  expedition  of  1498."  One  ship 
returned  to  Ireland  in  distress,  su  that,  even  if  it  is  certain  that 
Thirkill  accompanied  his  ship,  there  would  seem  to  be  little  posi- 
tive value  in  "  all,  thus  far,  which  is  known  concerning  the  results 
of  the  voyage,  except,  by  implication,  the  delineations  in  La  Cosa's 
planisphere."  This  was  written  before  the  discovery  of  the  Cabot 
1499  record.  No.  151  ;  see  Harrisse,  No.  395,  and  the  Intro- 
duiiion,  pp.  XV  and  xlii. 

See  note  under  Porter,  No.  487. 

HENRY   VIII.,   KING   OF   ENGLAND. 

Certain  payments  made  to  Sebastian  Cabot  from  the  treasury  of 
Henry  VIII.  are  noted  under  Brewer,  Nos.  i4a-i4i'. 

HERRERA  (Antonio  de)  Historia  Gene  ral  de  los  hechos 
de  los  castellanos  en  las  Islas  i  tierra  fi-rnie  delMaroceano 
esc  rita  por  Antonio  de  herrera  coionista  mayor  de  sv  M**. 
de  las  indias  y  sv  coronis-ta  de  Castilla  Enquatro  Decadas 
desde  el  Ano  de  1492  hasta  el  de  1531 — En  Ma''  en  la 
emplenta  real  1601  [^Madrid']  (i43) 

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Four  additional  Decades,  published  in  161 5,  continued  the  narra- 
tion tr  1555.  Each  of  the  eight  Decades  has  a  distinct  engraved 
title  and  separate  pagination. 

A  new  edition  was  edited  by  Andres  Gonzalez  Barcia,— 
Madrid,  (i726-)i730.  The  first  three  Decades  were  translated  into 
French, — Paris,  1659-1671.  These  were  also  translated  into  English 
by  Captain  John  Stevens, — London,  1 725-1 726  ;  reissued  1740. 
For  a  description  of  these  editions,  as  well  as  of  other  translations, 
see  Sabin,  DiSiionary  of  Books  relating  to  America, — Neixj  York,  1877, 
viii.  243-249. 

The  reasons  why  Sebastian  Cabot  was  induced  to  enter  the 
Spanish  service  are  stated  in  Dec.  i,  lib.  ix,  cap.  xiii  ;  see  note  to 
Ferdinand,  No.  107*.  The  articles  of  agreement  between  Cabot 
and  the  Emperor  for  the  South  Sea-La  Plata  expedition  are  perhaps 
summarized  in  Dec.  iii,  lib.  ix,  cap.  iii.  An  account  of  this  expedi- 
tion is  given  in  this  chapter  and  in  Dec.  iv,  lib.  viii,  cap.  xi,  which 
contains  a  portion  of  Cabot's  report.  No.  22.  See  also  Dec.  iii, 
lib.  iv,  cap.  xx. 

This  narrative  was  rendered  into  Dutch  as  : 

HERRERA  (Antonio  de)  De  trotsmoedige  scheeps-togt 
Van  Sebastiaan  Gaboto,  met  3  Scheepen  en  veel  Adelijke 
Manschap  ondernoomen  na  de  Moluccos,  Door  veel  tegens- 
poeden  en  onkunde  aan  Rio  de  la  Plata  mislukt.  Beneffens 
de  Scheeps-Togt  van  Diego  Garcia,  ter  nieuw^e  ontdekking 
gedaan,  langs  de  Kusten  van  America.  Beyde  in  't  Jaar 
1526  .  ,  .  Als  meder  Ferdinand  Cortes  Weder-komst  in 
Mexico  ;  .  .  .  &c.  Uyt  d'  eyge  berigten  der  Reysigers, 
en  Koninglijk  bevel  eertijds  in 't  Spaans  beschreeven,  door 
den  Heer  Antonius  de  Her-rera,  History-schrijver  .  .  . 
Nu  alder-eerst  in  't  Neder-duyts  vertaald. — Te  Lcyden, 
By  Pieter  vander  Aa,  1707.  (^44) 

8vo.     T  -|-  pp  1-83  4-  4  11  4-  2  plates  +  map. 

The  narrative  of  Cabot's  voyage  to  La  Plata  occupies  pp.  1-21. 

The  map  is  labelled  :  De  Voorgenome  Scheeps-Togt  van  Sebas- 
tiaan Gaboto,  om  Door  de  Straat  Mageliaan  na  de  Moluccos  te 
Stevenen,  aan  Rio  de  la  Plata  Voleyndigt.  (i+V) 

Engraved  map  ;  6|.  x  9^  inches. 

This  is  No.  xlii.  in  vol.  xi.  of  the  Vander  Aa  colleflion  : 

Naaukeurige  versameling  der  gedenk-wn.ardigste  zee  en  land- 
reysen  na  oost  en  west-indien,  Mitsgaders  andere  Gewesten 
.  .  .  gedaan;  zedert  het  jaar  1524  tot  1526. — Te  LeyJen, 
Door  Pieter  Vander  Aa,  1707.  (hs) 

It  was  reprinted  in  vol.  iv.  of  the  folio  edition,  Leyden,  1727. 


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HOBY  (Sir  Philip). 

See  Cheyne,  No.  74,  and  Edward  VI.,  No.  102. 

HOLBEIN  (Hans). 

See  note  under  Cabot,  No.  61. 

HOLINSHED  (Raphael)  1577.  The  Firste  volume  of 
the  Chronicles  of  England,  Scot-lande,  and  Irelande.  Con- 
teyning,  The  description  and  Chronicles  of  England,  from 
the  first  inhabiting  vnto  the  conquest  The  description 
and  Chronicles  of  Scotland,  from  the  first  originall  of  the 
Scottes  nation,  till  the  yeare  of  our  Lorde.  1571  The  de- 
scription and  Chronicles  of  Irelande,  likewise  from  the 
firste  originall  of  that  Nation,  vntill  the  yeare.  1547. 
Faithfully  gathered  and  set  forth,  by  Raphaell  Holinshed — 
London.  (146) 

•''iTi!'.!!  folio.  4.  volumes  :  volumes  i,  2  and  3  are  usually  found 
b  -and  together,  labelled  vol.  i.  T  +  7  11  +  Britaine,  126  11,  sigs. 
Ag-Pg,  Qg  +  Faultes  escaped,  i  \  sig.  r.j.  4-  Englande,  pp  1-289, 
sigs.  ag-Sg,  t.i.  4-  Scotland  T  +  3  11,  sigs.  A,,  *b*j,  +  11  11  +  i 
1  blank,  sigs.  *a*g,  *b*g  [See  Lowndes]  4-  pp  1-518,  sigs. 
Ag-Iig,  Kkj  4  13  11,  Kk(^),  Llg-Mmg  +  Ireland  T  4  1  1 
+  25J  11,  sigs.  Ag-Cg,  D^  -I-  pp  1-116  4-  3  11,  sigs.  Ag-Dg,  E5, 
Fg-Gg,  Hg,  Ij.  In  the  British  Museum  Grenville  copy  three 
cancel  leaves  are  inserted  after  p.  74,  Ireland,  numbered  •'  57  "  for 
75,  76-78,  "  70  "  for  79,  "  74  "  for  80  ;  the  text  shows  minor  vari- 
ations from  that  usually  found  on  these  pages  of  sheet  F  ;  note  the 
signature  collation  above.  There  is  also  a  duplicate  leaf  of  F  vij, 
pp.  90,  91,  showing  changes  in  the  text.  Copies  also  exist  with 
variant  imprints.  The  fourth  volume  is  usually  known  as  vol.  ii.j 
its  title  reads  : 

The  Laste  volume  .  .  .  Conteyning,  The  Chronicles  of  Englande 
from  William  Con-querour  vntill  this  present  tyme.  Faithfully 
gathered  and  compiled  by  Raphaell  Holinshed — London.  (146^) 

T  -I-  I  1,  sig.  fij  [see  Lowndes]  -f-  pp  291-1876,  sigs.  t»-tQ,;), 
Vg-Zg,  Ag-Yyyyg,  Zzzz^,  continuing  from  England,  sig.  t-,  in  vol. 
i.  4-  Table,  50  11  A^-M^,  N^  +  Faultes,  2  11,  sig.  (  )z.  An  extra 
leaf  numbered  "  1593"  is  between  pp.  1592-1593,  and  a  folding 
plate  is  between  pp.  1 868-1 869.     [Collated  by  H.  N.  Stevens.] 

Qn  p.  1714,  under  date  1552,  is  the  account  of  "the  great 
aduenture  of  the  vnknowne  voyage  into  the  East  .  .  .  The  great 
doer  and  encourager  of  which  voiage,  was  Sebastian  Caboto  an 
Englishma,  born  at  Bristow,  but  was  the  sonne  of  a  Geno-waies.'' 

HOLINSHED  (Raphael)    The  First  and  second  volumes 
of  Chronicles,  comprising  i  The  description  and  historic 


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of  England,  2  The  description  and  historic  of  Ireland,  3 

The  description  and  historic  of  Scotland  :  First;  colledled 

and  published  by  Raphaell  Holinshed,  William  Harrison, 

and  others :  Now  newlie  augmented  and  continued  (with 

manifold  matters  of  singular  note  and  worthie  memorie)  to 

the  yeare  1586,  by  John  Hooker  alias  Vowell,  Gent,  and 

others  —  Colophon:    Finished    in   Januarie    1587    .  .  . 

London.  (^4^") 

Large  folio.     T  +  3  II  +  Britain,  pp  1-250  +  England,  T  +1  1 

+  pp  1-202  +  Ireland,  T  +  3  11  +  pp9-6i  +  5  11  •+-  pp  1-183  + 

Scotland,  T  +  PP  187-464.  •\-  27  11.     These  parts  are  usually  bouml 

as  volume  i.     Volume  ii.  has  the  title  : 

The  Third  volume  of  Chronicles,  be-ginning  at  duke  William 
the  Norman,  commonlie  called  the  Conqueror,-  .  .  .  First 
compiled  by  Raphaell  Holinshed,  and  by  him  extended  to  the 
yeare  1577.  Now  newlie  recognised,  augmented,  and  con- 
tinued (with  occurrences  and  accidents  of  fresh  memorie)  to  the 
yeare  1586.  Wherein  also  are  conteined  manie  matters  of 
singular  discourse  and  rare  obser-uation,  fruitiull  to  such  as  be 
studious  in  antiquities,  or  take  pleasure  in  the  grounds  of 
anci-ent  histories. — [^London,  1587.]  ('4^') 

Large  folio.     T  +  3  11  +  pp  1-1592  +  29  11. 
This  edition  is  very  much  enlarged  from  that  of  1577.     The 
Cabot  passage  under   1552,  iii.    1083,  is  practically  the  same  as 
before. 

On  pp.  785-789,  under  the  year  14.98,  there  is  an  account  of  how 
America  was  discovered  by  Sebastian  Gabato, "  professing  himselfe 
to  be  expert  in  knowledge  of  the  circuit  of  the  world,  .  .  as  by  his 
charts  and  other  reasonable  demonstrations  he  shewed.  ...  In  the 
ship  diuerse  merchants  of  London  aduentured  small  stocks,  and  in 
the  companie  of  this  ship  sailed  also  out  of  Bristow  three  or  foure 
small  ships  fraight  with  slight  and  grosse  wares,  as  course  cloath, 
caps,  lases,  points,  and  such  other."  See  the  notes  under  Fabyan, 
No.  105,  and  Stow,  No.  212,  from  whom  the  passage  on  page  789, 
which  refers  to  this  discovery  "  before  named  in  Anno  1468,"  is 
copied. 

The  1587  edition  was  reprinted  in  six  volumes,  large  quarto, — 
London,  1 807-1 808. 

HURTADO    DE    MENDOZA    (Lope)      [Letter    to 
Charles   V. — Lisbon^  19  0<^tober,  1528.  (H7) 

Manuscript  copy  in  the  British  M useum,  London,  i^i/^^/V.  MSS.  No. 

28. 577, /o.  498. 

An  English  version  is  printed  in  GayAngos,  Calendar  (Spain), 
iii.  pt.  ii.  823. 

This  dispatch  reports  the  return  of  one  of  the  caravels  from  the 


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fleet  of  Sebastian  Cavofto,  bringing  the  accountant  and  treasurer 
of  the  fleet,  with  news  of  wonderful  discoveries  which  assure  that 
the  Emperor  "will  no  longer  want  either  cinnamon  or  pepper,  for 
he  will  have  more  gold  and  silver  than  he  requires." 

JOMARD  (Edme-Francois)  Les  monuments  de  la  gdo- 
graphie  ou  recueil  d'anciennes  cartes  Europ6ennes  et 
Orientales  .  .  .  publids  en  facsimile  de  la  grandeur  des 
originaux  par  M.  Jomard — Paris  (1855-1862).         (148) 

Imperial  folio.     82  plates. 

Among  the  21  maps  reproduced  in  facsimile  by  E.  Rembielinski, 
are  those  described  under  Cabot,  No.  39  ;  Cosa,  No.  84.;  Des- 
CELIERS,  No.  91. 

In  connexion  with  this  work,  consult  : 

Introduction  a  1' Atlas  des  Monuments  de  la  Geo^raphie  par  feu 
M.  Jomard.  Publi^e  par  les  soins  et  avec  des  remarques  de  M. 
E.  Cortambert — Paris  iSjg.  ('49) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  60  +  Liste  des  Cartes  i  p. 

JUNCO  (Juan  de). 

The  deposition  of  the  sailor  Junco,  who  returned  with  Cabot 
from  La  Plata,  in  regard  to  the  charges  of  mismanagement  made 
against  Cabot,  which  was  taken  at  Seville,  28  July,  j  530,  is  printed 
in  Harrisse,  Ca^o/,  415-417.  See  the  notes  under  Cabot,  No. 
23-  (»So) 

KEMYS  (Arthur)  and  MERYK  (Richard  ap)  Brys- 
tolle  the  Acompts  of  the  Custymers 

Arthurus    Kemys    et    Ricardus    a  Meryk  Colledlores 

Custumarum  et  Subsidiorum  domini  Regis  lanarum  Cor- 

riorum  et    pellium   lanutarum  in  portu   ville   Bristol),   a 

festo  sci.  Michaelis  archangeli  anno  xii"""  [xiii,  xiiij]  Regis 

Henrici  vij'"'  vsque  idem  festum  sci.  Michaelis  tunc  proxime 

sequens,  redunt  Computum  .  .  .  (^5*) 

Manuscript  found  among  the  muniments  of  the  Chapter  House, 

Westminster  Abbey.    Exhibited  at  the  Cabot  Celebration,  Bristol, 

England,  24  June,  1897  :  see  note  under  Dufferin,  No.  339. 

Printed  in  : 

"The  Cabot  Roll."  The  Customs  Poll  of  the  Port  o''  Bristol 
A.D.  1496  to  1499.  Translated  from  the  original  Manu- 
script recently  discovereil  at  Westminster  Abbey,  By  Edward 
Scott,  M.A.  (Keeper  of  Manuscripts  in  the  British  Museum). 
With  an  Intn  duftion  relating  to  entries  of  the  Koyal  Pension 
paid  to  John  Cabot,  Navigator,  By  Alfred  E.  Hudd,  F.S.A, 
Published  by  William  George's  Sons,  Bristol,  1897.  150 copies 
only.  ('5*) 


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Folio,  2oi  X  15  inches.  Cover  T  +  i  1  introduction  +  3  II 
facsimile  +  3  11  transcript  +  3  11  translation  j  printed  on  one  side 
of  the  sheet. 

An  entry  in  the  second  and  third  of  these  accounts,  which  covei 
the  administrative  years  beginning  29  September,  14.96,  1497,  and 
14.98,  reads  : 

In  tho  in  vna  tall  p  Johe  Caboot  (Cabot,  in  14.98-9)  xx  li. 

This  apparently  proves  that  John  Cabot's  pension  (see  Henry 
VII.,  Nos.  139,  141)  for  the  years  1498-14.99  had  been  paid  (in 
thesauro,  in  cash),  and  that  the  customers  held  the  tally  as  a  receipt 
(in  thesaurario,  in  the  treasury).  See  Harrisse,  No.  395,  and  the 
IntroduSiion,  p.  xliii. 

Mr.  Hudd's  introdu6lion  to  the  facsimile  refrains  from  critical 
comments  on  the  text,  and  Mr.  Harrisse  can  only  say  that  these 
Bristol  accounts  "  strongly  tend  to  prove  that  John  Cabot  did 
return  from  his  last  voyage  before  September  29,  1498,  aud  that  he 
was  still  living  after  the  latter  date," — although  they  "  do  not  in 
themselves  prove  his  personal  presence  either  in  London  or  Bristol 
at  the  dates  specified  in  the  accounts." 

KEMYS  (Arthur)  and  MERYK  (Richard  ap)  Visus 
compi  Arthuri  Kemys  &  Rici  A'  Meryk  Collcolj: 
Custumaljl:  &  Subs  dni  Regis  in  port  ville  Bristolt  &  in 
singlis  portub3  &  locis  eidm  portui  adjacentibus  vidett  de 
feuj  cust  (&  subs  dni  Regis  ibm  a  ftesto  sci  Mictiis  Archi 
Anno  xiij°  dni  Regis  nunc  Henrici  septimi  vsque  fFestum 
Pasche  acciden  xv""*  die  Aprilis  tunc  prox  sequen  scitt  \i 
medietatem  vnius  Anni  &  xvj  dies  ut  supra.  (153) 

Manuscript,  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  London,  Exchequer 
^  R.  Custom  -J^.  First  printed  by  Weare,  Cabot,  No.  560, 
London,  1897,  p.  131 ;  with  translation  of  the  entire  document  on 

Pl»-  333-336. 

This  "View  of  the  accounts  of  the  Colleftors  for  Bristol," 
for  the  half  year  beginning  29  September,  1497,  contains  an 
entry  which  shows  that  Cabot  received  during  the  period  ending  1 5 
April,  1498,  the  half  of  his  annuity  granted  by  Henry  VII.,  No. 
139,  and  that  he  gave  "an  acquittance  thereof  to  be  shown  upon 
this  view  and  remaining  in  the  possession  of  the  said  collectors"  : 
Et  eisdm — x  ti  p  ipos  solut  Jotii  Calboto  veniciano 
nup  de  villa  Bristoll  p'dict  p  Annuitate  sua  ad  xx  ti  p 
Annu  sibi  p  dcm  drim  Regem  nunc  p  tras  suas  pateii 
concess  pcipient  ad  duas  Anni  Tcrminos  de  Cust  & 
Subs  in  dco  portu  ville  Bristott  |?ven  &  crescen  vidett  p 
Termino  Annunc  bte  Marie  virginis  infra  tempus  huj 
visus  acciden  p  vnam  Acquietanc  ipius  Jotlis  inde  sup 
hunc  visum  ostens  &  penes  dcos  Collcores  remaii. 


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KOCHHAFF  (Nathan). 

See  Chytr^us,  No.  75,  the  Latinized  form  of  the  name  by 
which  the  German  student  and  traveller  KochhaflF  is  generally 
known. 

KRANTZIUS  (Albertus). 

See  notes  under  Ziegler,  No.  432. 

LA  COSA  (Juan  de). 
See  CosA,  No.  84. 

LAET  (Johannes  de)  Novvs  orbis  seu  descriptionis 
indiae  occidentalis  Libri  xviij.  Authore  loanne  de  Laet 
Antverp.  Novis  Tabulis  Geographicis  et  variis  Animan- 
tium,  Plantarum  Fruftuumque  Iconibus  illustrati — Lugd. 
Batav.  apud  Elzevirios.    A".  1633.  (iS4) 

Folio.     2  T  +  14  11  +  pp  1-690  +  9  11  +  14  maps. 

The  introdu6lion  to  the  description  of  New  France  states  that 
the  Cabots  not  only  discovered  this  region,  but  that  they  also 
charted  a  considerable  extent  of  its  coast-line,  as  was  proven  by 
the  maps  which  they  published,  of  which  not  a  few  still  existed  in 
England,  p.  31  ;  see  notes  to  No.  39.  This  passage  reappears  on 
p.  33  of  the  French  translation  issued  by  the  same  publishers  in 
1640.  It  does  not  occur  in  the  original  Dutch  editions  of  1625 
and  1630. 

LANQUET  (Thomas). 

Cooper's  continuation  of  Lanquet's  Chronicle  is  described  as 
No.  81. 

LA  POPELLINIERE  (Lancelot  Voisin  de)  Les  trois 
mondes.  par  le  seignevr  de  la  Popelliniere — Paris  1582 

(155) 

8vo.     T  +  27  11  -I-  map  +  U  ^-SS  +  '"S^  -r  '-S'- 
There  is  a  realistic  rendering  of  the  Mantuan  gentleman's  ac- 
count of  Gauoto,  from  Ramusio,  No.  194,  in  liv.  ii.  11.  41-42. 
This  version  may  have  been  used  by  Hakluyt  in   preparing  his 
Discours  of  1584,  No.  126. 

LEARDO  (Francisco). 

The  Informacion  taken  against  Sebastian  Cabot  at  the  request  of 
Leardo  is  described  as  No.  12. 


M>     / 


Cabot  JBibltOdrapbi? 


69 


LOK  (Michael)  Illvstri  viro,  Domino  Philippo  Sidnaeo 
Michael  Lolc  civis  Londinensis  banc  chartam  dedicabat : 
1582.  (156) 

Woodcut  map;  38  x  29  cmm. ;  15  x  ii{  inches.  Published 
with  Hakluyt,  Di'vers  l^oyages.  No.  125. 

Facsimiles  are  in  the  Hakluyt  Society  edition  of  the  Dfvers 
Voyages, — London,  1850;  Catalogue  of  the  "John  Carter  Bronx n 
Library, — Pro'vidence,  R.  I.,  1875,  i.  288  j  WiNSOR,  America,  iii. 
40;  Lv c AS,  Zeno, — London,  1898. 

'*  Ji  Gabot.  1497"  appears  on  the  mainland  coast  below  "C. 
Bretou."  This  is  the  earliest  instance  of  the  correft  date  for  the 
iliscovery  in  an  existing  printed  document.  The  name  of  the  dis- 
coverer is  likewise  correftly  given. 

Lok's  translation  oi  Martyr,  Decades,  is  described  as  No.  165. 

LOPEZ   DE   GOMARA  (Francisco). 

The  works  of  this  historian  are  described  under  his  more  familiar 
name  of  Gomara,  No.  118. 

LOVELL  (Sir  Thomas). 

See  notes  under  Brewer,  No.  14'',  and  Drapers,  No.  94. 

MAIOLO,  or  MAGGIOLO  (Vesconte  de)  '  esconte 
de  maiolo  cuius  Janue  conposuy.  In  neapoly  de  anno. 
1. 5. II.  die  XX  January  (^57) 

Manuscript  atlas,  10  leaves,  each  40  X  28  cmm.,  or  15A  x  .' ! 
inches.  In  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  Providence,  R.I. 
Described  by  Harrisse,  Discovery,  468-469. 
On  the  sixth  map,  which  represents  the  arftic  regions,  is  "  Terra 
de  los  Ingres,"  "  Land  of  the  English  "  presumably,  west  of 
Europe,  at  the  furthest  north.  South  of  this  are  "  Terra  de  Lauor- 
adore  de  rey  de  portugall,"  "  tera  de  pescaria,"  a  nd  "  Terra  de 
corte  reaje  de  rey  de  portugall." 

MARINO  DE  BUCIGNOLO  (Hieronimode)  Litterae 
scriptae  nomine  Hieronymi  di  Marino  Rhagusei  ad  Sebas- 
tianum  Caboto  in  Hispaniam  existentem — FenetiiSy  28 
Aprilis  1523  (158) 

Original  manuscript  copy  in  the  State  Archives,  Venice,  Capi 
del  Consiglio  de''  Died,  Lettere  soltoscritte,  Filza  No.  6,  1523. 

Printed  in  BuLLO,  No.  290, — Chioggia,  1880,  68.  Translated 
into  English  by  Brown,  Calendar  {Venice),  iii.  No.  669. 

For  the  circumstances  under  which  this  fiftitious  letter  was 
written,  see  the  notes  to  Contarini,  Nos.  76-78,  and  Venice, 
Nos.  225-227.     The  letter  states  that  Cabot  can  doubtless  recover 


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4  ^-. 


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Cabot  3BibUo0rapb^ 


the  dowry  ot  his  mother  it  he  appears  in  person  to  claim  it  :  et  tni 
fii  dato  bona  speranza  de  reciiperar  la  dote  di  vostra  madre,  ct 
aineda, — the  latter  being  very  old  and  likely  to  die,  haste  is  necessary. 
The  exadl  significance  of  this  term  "  ameda  "  apparently  puzzles  all 
who  have  undertaken  the  elucidation  ot  this  passage. 

The  order  for  a  payment  to  Marin,  No,  226,  shows  that  this 
Kagusan  messenger  cannot  have  been  entirely  a  fiflitious  personage. 


n;'!. 


MARK.HAM  (Sir  Clements  Robert). 

Th(.  Hakluyt  Society  volume  which  contains  the  standard  English 
versions  of  the  important  Cabot  documents  is  described  as  No.  4.51. 

MARTYR  DE  ANGF-IIERA  (Pietro)  Deorbenouo 
Decades — [Colophon]  .  .  .  fuerunt  hx  tres  protono  tarii 
Petri  martyris  decades  Impressae  in  .  .  .  jflcala  pfe  £tu 
est  nonis  No  uebris  An.  15 16.  (^59) 

Folio.     83  11. 

Three  decades  of  the  New  World  history  occupy  the  first  63 
leaves,  followed  by  4.  leaves  of  errata  and  "  Vocabula  barbara,"  on 
the  last  of  which  is  the  colophon.  The  remaining  16  leaves  con- 
tain the  *'  Legationis  babilonicae.'' 

Nine  books  of  the  first  decade  were  printed  at  Hispali  {Se'ville) 
in  1511.  The  three  decades,  with  an  abridgment  of  the  fourth, 
were  reprinted,  Basikte,  1533;  Coloniee,  1574.  They  were  trans, 
lated,  usually  with  editorial  abridgment,  into  Fiench,  Paris,  1532$ 
Italian,  Fenetia,  1564}  and  English  (see  Eden,  No.  96) — London, 
iS<;5,  and  1577. 

In  Dec.  Ill,  lib.  vi,  (I.  52,  15 16  edition)  there  is  an  account  of  a 
voyage  by  Sebastian  Cabot,  whom  Martyr  claims  to  have  known 
intimately  ;  Familiarem  habeo  domi  cabotum  ipsum  &  contubernalem 
interdum  ;  and  whom  he  describes  as  Venetian  born,  having  been 
taken  to  England  when  very  young  ;  genere  uenetus  :  sed  aparen- 
tibus  m  britaniam  insulam  tendentibus  :  uti  moris  est  uenetorum  : 
qui  commercii  causa  terrarum  omnium  sunt  hospites  transportatus 
pene  infans.  Cabot  furnished  two  ships  with  300  men  at  his  own 
expense  and  set  sail  northward  until  he  was  compelled  to  turn 
towards  the  west  by  the  great  icebergs  which  he  met,  although  it 
was  midsummer ;  the  daylight  was  almost  continuous  and  the  snow 
was  melted  from  the  ground  in  places:  &primotendenscum  homi- 
nibus  tercentum  ad  septentrionem  donee  etiam  iulio  mense  uastas 
repererit  glaciales  moles  pelago  natantes  :  &  lucem  fere  perpetuam  : 
tellure  tame  libera  gelu  liquefafto.  Quare  coaftus  fuit  uti  ait  uela 
uertere  &  occidetem  sequi.  Cabot  afterwards  coasted  southward 
until  he  estimated  ihat  he  was  in  the  latitude  of  Gibraltar  and 
about  the  longitude  of  Cuba.  He  observed  during  the  voyage  a 
westward  drifting  of  the  water,  which  suggested  to  Martyr  a 
passage   opening   towards  the  west.      Martyr  also  thought  that 


Cabot  JSiblioorapbi? 


7> 


Cabot  namtfd  this  region  Baccullaos  because  tliis  was  the  name  hy 
which  the  natives  called  the  large  fish  or  tunnies,  which  swarmed 
off  this  coast  :  Baccallaos  cabottus  ipse  terras  illas  apptilauit :  eo 
(|  in  earum  peiago  tantam  reperit  magnorum  quorundam  piscium  : 
tinnos  emulantium  :  sic  uocatorum  ab  indigents :  multitudinem  : 
ut  etiam  illi  naui  gia  interdum  detardareiit.  The  people  dressed  in 
skins  and  appeared  to  be  intelligent.  The  bears  of  the  country  fed 
on  the  fish  and  did  not  notice  his  men  :  ipsi  piscibus  uescantur. 
Inter  densa  nan(^  piscium  illorum  agmina  sese  immergut  vrsi  :  & 
singulos  singuli  complexes  :  unguibusc^  inter  squamas  immissis  in 
terram  raptat  8c  commeduut  :  compare  the  notes  under  Ramusio, 
No.  192.  The  natives  possessed  considerable  copper,  or  "  laton  " 
according  to  Eden,  No.  96. 

Martyr  adds  that  Cabot  had  been  called  to  the  Spanish  service 
after  the  death  of  King  Henry  of  England, and  that  he  was  anxiously 
waiting  until  March,  is>^t  when  he  had  been  promised  a  fleet  with 
which  to  complete  his  discoveries  :  expe6tat(^  indies  ut  nauigia 
sibi  paretur  :  quibus  aicaimm  hoc  naturx  latens  iam  tandem  dete- 
gatur.  Martio  mense  anni  t'uturi  .1516:  puto  ad  id  explorandum 
discessurum.  This  passage  closes  with  the  suggestive  remark  that 
there  are  some  persons  among  the  Spaniards  who  deny  that  Cabot 
was  the  first  to  visit  Baccallaos  or  that  he  had  been  so  far  west. 

MARTYR  DE  ANGHIERA  (Pietro)  De  orbe  no 
uo  Petri  Martyris  ab  Anglcria  Mediolaiieii  sis  Protonotarij 
Cesaris  sena  toris  de-cades.  Cum  priuilegio  Imperiali. — 
Compluti  M.  D.  XXX.  (160) 

Folio.     T  +  fol.  ij-cxvij  +  3  11  +  map. 

This  is  the  first  edition  containing  the  eight  decades  of  the  com- 
plete work.     The  Cabot  passage  of  Decade  III.  is  on  fol.  xlvj. 

The  date  of  Cabot's  voyage  is  implied  in  a  passage  in  Dec.  VII, 
cap.  ii,  fol.  xcij,  which  was  written  in  1524;  Bacchalaos  anno  ab 
hinc  sexto  decimo  ex  Anglia  per  Cabotii  repertos.  Hakluyt  in 
1587  edited  this  so  that  it  read,  p.  471  of  his  edition  of  that  year : 
anno  abhinc  vigesimo  sexto.  See  the  IntroduSiion,  p.  xliv,  and  No. 
566. 

Cabot's  voyage  to  the  Moluccas  is  described  in  Dec.  VII,  cap. 
vi,  fo!.  xcvij  :  see  note  to  Cabot,  No.  58. 

The  second  edition  has  the  tiili  . 

MARTYR  DE  ANGHIERA  (/ietro)  De  orbe  novo 
petri  martyris  an-glerii  Mediolanensis,  Pro-tonotarij,  & 
Caroli  quinti  Senatoris  Decades  odlo,  diligenti  temporum 
ob-seruatione,  &  vtilissimis  annotationibus  illustratze, 
suoque  nitori  restitutae,  Labore  &  industria  Richardi 
Haklvyti — Parisiis  m.d.lxxxvii.  (161) 

8vo      T  +  7  11  +  map  +  pp  1-605  +  12  11. 


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Wlli'^W 


7? 


Cabot  JSlbltoorapb? 


The  map,  engraved  on  copper,  20  X  i6.3cmm.,  bears  the  eulogistic 
legend,  "  Do6Hss.  et  ornatiss.  Rich.  Hakiuyto  F.  G.  S.  .  .  .  Paris, 
cal.  Maij.  m.d.lxxxvu."  Along  the  Labrador  shore  of  the  river 
and  gulf  of  St.  Lawrence  is  the  legend  :  "  Bacallaos  ab  Anglis 
14.96,"  This  map  is  said  to  have  been  drawn  by  Francis  Gaulle. 
The  S  probably  stands  for  Salutat,  ('62) 

Hakluyt's  manipulation  of  the  text  of  the  Cabot  passage  is  ex- 
plained in  the  preceding  notes  to  No.  160. 

Eden's  translation  of  the  first  three  Decades,  No.  96,  with  an 
English  version  of  the  remaining  books  by  Michael  Lok,  was  pub- 
lished as  : 

De  Novo  Orbe,  or  the  historie  of  the  west  Indies  ...  by  the 
Industrie,  and  painefull  Trauaile  of  M.  Lok  Gent. —  London 
for  Thomas  Adams,  161 2.  ('63) 

Small  4.to.     T  +  4  11  +  II  1-3 18. 

This  was  reissued  as  : 

The  famovs  historie  of  the  Indies  .  ,  .  by  L.  M.  Gent.  The 
second  Edition — London  for  Michael  Sparke,  1628.  (164) 

Small  4to.     T  +  2  11  +  U  1-3 18. 

It  was  also  issued  as  : 

The  historie  of  the  West-Indies  ...  by  M.  Lok.  Gent. — 
London,  for  Andrew  Hebb.  (165) 

Small  4to.     T  +  2  11  +  11  1-318. 

The  text  of  these  three  editions  is  the  same,  except  that  the  first 
contains  two  leaves  of  "  Epistola  Dedicatoria  "  which  were  not  re- 
issued. The  date  of  Hebb's  issue  is  not  known,  *>ut  it  was  pre- 
sumably later  than  1628.  The  evidence  so  far  as  obtainable  is 
clearly  stated  in  Henry  Stevens'  Historical  CoUeSlions, — London,  1886, 
ii.  37-38.  This  work  was  reprinted  in  Evans' edition  of  Hakluyt, 
No.  132, — London,  1812,  v.  155-476. 

The  S'vmmario  dal  Pietro  Martyre, — Venice,  1534,  is  described 
under  Ramusio,  No.  192. 

See  notes  under  Chauveton,  No.  73  ;  and  Willes,  No.  230. 


M 


M 


MARY  TUDOR,  Queen  of  England  The  Charter 
of  the  Marchants  of  Russia,  graunted  vpon  the  discouerie 
of  the  saide  Countrey,  by  King  Philip  and  Queene  Marie. 
— IVestminster,  6  February,  1555.  (i^^) 

Printed  in  HzVXayt,  Voyages, — London,  1598,  i.  267-272.  See 
Lemon,  Calendar  of  Domestic  State  Papers,  1574-80,  i.  65. 

"  And  in  consideration  that  one  Sebastian  Cabota  hath  bin  the 
chiefest  setter  forth  of  this  iourney  or  voyage,  therefore  we  make, 
ordeine,  and  constitute  him  the  said  Sebastian  to  bo  the  first  and 
present  gouernour  of  the  same  fellowship  and  communaltie  .  .  .To 
haue  and  enioy  the  said  office  .  .  .  during  hisnaturall  life,  without 
amouing  or  dimissing  from  the  same  roome." 


Cabot  3Siblio0rapbt> 


7S 


MARY  TUDOR  Pro  Sebastiano  Caboto  de  annuitate 
concessa — apud     Saint    "James^    xxvii.     die    Novembris. 

(I555-)  (»67) 

Printed  in  Rymer,  Foedera,  No.  loi,— London,  1718,  xv.  427; 
Hague  edition,  vi.  pt.  iv.  40. 

This  is  virtually  a  renewal  ofthe  pension  grantedby  Edward  VI., 
No.  99  :  in  considerationc  boni  vtri  6c  atceptabilis  Servitij  nobis, 
per  dileftum  Servientem  nostrum  Sebastianum  Caboto  Armigerum. 

MARY  TUDOR  Pro  Sebastiano  Caboto  concessio  jsd 
vitam — apud  JVestmonasterium  viccsimo  nono  die  Maii. 
(1557.)  (>68) 

Printed  in  Rymer,  No.  102,  xv.,  465-466  j  Hague  edition,  vi. 
pt.  iv.  55. 

Translated  by  Harrisse,  Cabot,  459-460. 

The  document  completes  an  agreement  by  which  Cabot  resigned 
the  pension  granted  him  in  1555,  and  in  its  place  thi-  fresh  grant 
ofthe  same  sum,  250  marks  nnnually,  «vas  made  in  similar  terms  to 
Cabot  and  to  William  Worthington  jointly:  seethe  notes  which 
follow.  The  annuity  was  pledged  to  '*  them  and  the  survivor  itf 
them,  their  assigns,  and  the  assigns  of  the  survivor  of  them,  .  .  . 
for  the  term  and  terms  of  the  lives  of  the  said  Sebastian  and 
William,  and  the  surv'vor  of  them." 

The  Tellers  Rolls,  103-106,  quoted  in  Harrisse,  C«Ao/,  454-460, 
record  that  Cabot  received  ^33  6s.  id.,  one  half  of  his  annual 
pension  of  100  marks,  on  29  September,  1554,  ^howing  that  this 
allowance  was  granted  him  from  the  preceding  25  Marcii. 
Another  payment  of  the  sam*^  amount  was  made  25  March,  1555, 
which  is  after  the  date  of  the  grant  of  250  marks.  This  payment 
was  by  the  hands  of,  per  manus,  Thome  Tyrrell.  On  29  Septem- 
ber following,  he  received  ^8  3  6j.  id. ;  Sebastiano  Caboto  armigero 
dc  annuitate  sua  ad  centum  marcas  per  annum  sibi  debitas  pro 
dimidioanni  .  .  .  per  manus  W™  Worthington  iiii  xxiii  li  vjs  viijd. 
The  amount  of  the  pension  is  correftly  given  in  the  memoranda  or 
the  payment  at  the  end  of  the  next  quarter,  25  December.  Pay- 
ments, by  the  hands  of  Worthington  or  of  the  latter's  servants, 
continued  to  be  made,  on  25  March,  24  June,  29  September,  and 
25  December,  1556  j  25  March,  14  June,  and  29  September,  1557. 

(169) 

There  seems  to  be  no  way  of  telling  whether  Worthington  re- 
ceived on  his  own  account  any  part  of  the  quarterly  payments  made 
to  Cabot  "  per  manus  W"  Worthington  "  in  June  and  September, 
1557,  after  the  issuance  of  No.  168.  The  payment  of  ^41  13^.4^. 
on  25  December,  1557,  was  made  to  "William  Worthington,  armi- 
gero, de  annuitate  sua."  The  natural  inference  is  that,  when  this 
record  was  made,  Sebastian  Cabot  had  died,  although  he  may 
merely  have  relinquished  his  share  in  the  pension.  (i6q») 


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74 


Cabot  Biblfodrapbi? 


MASON  (John)  Newfovnd  Land  described  hy  Captaine 
lohn  Mason  an  industrious  Gent:  who  spent  seuen  ycares 
in  the  Countrcy  ('7o) 

Copper  plate  map,  26.5  x   17.^  cmm.,or  lo'  x  6j  inches. 
Publishcil  with  William  Vaugiian's  : 

The  Golilen  Fleeie  Diuiiled  into  three  Parts,  .  .  .  lastly  the 
wayes  to  get  wealth,  and  to  restore  Trading  so  much  com- 
playned  of.  Transported  from  .  .  .  the  isouthermost  Part  of 
the  Hand,  commonly  called  the  Newfovndiand,  By  Orpheus 
Iimior,  For  the  generall  and  perpetuall  Good  of  Great 
Britaine. — l.onJon  1626  (>70 

Small  4to.     T  -f  13  11  -f  map  +  pp  '-'49  +  1-105  +  1-96. 
On  the  outer  coast  of  the  inap,  about  latitude  49"  20',  is  "  C 
Bona  Vista  a  Caboto  primum  reperta."     Newtoundlanders  some- 
times suggest  that  this  statement  records  the  unbroken  local  tra- 
dition  preserved  on  t!:e   island  since  the  landfall  at  this  point  in 

1497. 

A  legend  in  the  lower  left  corner  reads  ;  Insula  olim  appellata 
Noua  Terra  a  Cabota  Veneto  primu  reperta  Anno  Dni  1499  ^"^ 
auspicijs  et  sumptibus  Henrici  7  Anglorum  Regis." 

MEAD  (Edwin  Doak)  The  Voyages  of  the  Cabots. 
From  Hakluyt's  "  Principal  Navigations,  Voyages  and 
Discoveries  of  the  English  Nation."  (^72) 

Published  in  the  series  o^ Old  Sout/i  Leaflets,  No.  37, — Boston, 
1895,  8vo,  pp.  i-ia.     Edited  by  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead.     See  note, 


No. 


133- 


MEDINA  (Pedro  de)  Arte  de  nauegar  en  que  se  con- 
tienen  todas  las  Reglas,  Declara  ciones.  Secretes,  y  Auisos, 
q  a  la  buena  naue-gacio  son  necessarios,  y  se  deue  saber, 
hecha  por  el  maestro  Pedrc,  ue  Medina.  Dirigida  al  sere 
nissimo  y  muy  esclarescidv)  scuor,  don  Phelipe  principe  de 
Espana,  y  de  las  dos  Sicilias  &c. — [Colophon]  ...  el 
presente  libro  .  .  .  Fue  visto  y  aprouado,  en  la  insigne 
casa  de  la  Contradtacion  delas  Indias,  por  el  Piloto  mayor 
y  Cosmographos  de  su  Magestad  .  .  .  Valladolid  .  .  . 
Acabose  primero  dia  del  mes  de  0<Slubre  .  .  .  mil  y 
quinieiitos  y  quarenta  y  cinco  anos.  (^73) 

Spanish  folio.     T  +  5  11  +  fol.  i-c  +  1  1. 

Translated  into  French  {P tris,  1553?);  Lyon,  1554,  1569, 
1576;  Rouen,  1573,  1633;  in'o  Italian,  y'lnetia,  1554;  into  Ger- 
man, (?)  1576;  and  into  Fnglish,  by  John  Frampton, — London, 
1581,  and  1595. 


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Harkisse  states  that  Cabot's  appointment  to  examine  this  book, 
— sec  the  colophon  reprinted  above, — was  mnde  at  the  beginning  ot 
OSioheT  {Calfot,  2io),  or  on  28  Noveml)er,  1  54?  (y^MfOirry,  708). 

MENDEZ  (Isabel). 
MENDEZ  (Martin). 

The  documents  in  the  legal  proceedings  instituted  against  Cabot 
by  relatives  of  those  who  siift'ered  under  him  during  the  expedition 
to  La  Plata  are  described  under  Nos.  11,  24,  29,  and  31. 

MERYKE  (Richard  ap). 

Si-e  Kemys,  Nos,  151-153. 

MERCHANTS   ADVENTURERS. 

The  charter  granted  by  Queen  Mary  to  the  English  Merchants 
Adventurers  trading  to  Russia  is  described  as  No.  166. 

MOLINEUX  (Emmf.rie,  or  Emeric)  Thou  hast  here 
(gentle  reader)  a  true  hydrographical  description  of  so 
much  of  the  world  as  hath  bcenc  hetherto  discouered,  and 
is  comne  to  our  knowledge  :  which  we  haue  in  such  sort 
performed,  yt  all  places  herein  set  downe,  haue  the  same 
positions  and  distances  that  they  haue  in  the  globe     (174) 

Engraved  copperplate  map,  63.5  x  42.5  cmm.,  or  2  5|-  X  17 
inches.  Published  with  some  copies  of"  H ak m yt,  f^oyages.  No. 
129, — London,  1599- 1600. 

Twenty-five  copies  of  an  autotype  facsimile  of  this  map  were 
issued  by  Bernard  Quaritch,  London,  1874;  Catalogue  294,  No. 
1632.  A  photogravure  facsimile  of  an  earlier  state  of  the  plate  was 
issued  in  separate  cover  with  the  Hakluyt  Society  edition  of  Davis, 
Nc.  87, — London,  March,  1880. 

Across  the  northern  Labrador  mainland  is  the  legend  :  "This 
land  was  discouered  by  John  Sebastian  Cabote  for  Kinge  Henry  y« 
7*''  1497."  In  the  edition  of  M/.kluyt  for  which  this  map 
appears  to  have  been  drawn,  the  date  of  this  discovery  was  changed 
from  1494  to  1497. 

Captain  A.  H.  Markham,  in  his  edition  of  Davis,  No.  87,  pp. 
xxxiii,  Ixi,  and  364,  gives  reasons  for  suspe61ing  that  this  map,  which 
has  long  been  assigned  to  Molineux,  was  in  reality  the  work  of 
Edward  Wright,  a  mathematician  who  perfefted  and  rendered 
praflicable  what  is  known  as  "  MercatoHs  Projeftion,"  which  he 
demonstrated  in  h\s  Certain  Errors  in  Nauigai ion  Deleted, — London, 
1599.  His  formulae  were  accurately  introduced  for  the  first  time 
on  this  map. 

Mr.  C.  H.  Coote,  in  a  paper  printed  by  the  New  Shakspere 
Society,  Transatlions, — London,  1878,  ii.  88-100,  suggested  that  this 


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map  is  the  one  referred  to  by  Shakspere,  in  Tvjelfth  Night,  Art 
iii.  Scene  ii.,  as  "  the  new  Mappe,  with  the  augmentation  of  the 
Indies."  In  a  suggestive  note  on  the  separate  reprint  of  Mr. 
Coote's  paper,  in  his  Catalogue  321,  Bibliotfieca  Geograp/iico-IAu- 
guistica, — Lo«d'o«,  February,  1879,  Book  No.  "9'9»  PP-  1183-1184, 
Mr.  Bernard  Quaritch  says  that  "the  fa£l  had  already  been  stated 
by  me  in  a  catalogue  now  four  years  old."  There  is  no  reference 
to  Tiveljth  Night  in  the  notes  on  the  facsimile  of  this  map  in  Mr. 
(^uaritch's  Catalogue  294,  l^oyages  and  Travels, — London,  January, 
1875,  Book  Nos.  1623-1632,  pp.  157-158.  ('74") 

Mr.  Henry  Stevens,  in  Historical  ColleSlions  Catalogue,  Part  I — 
1 88 1,  i!  ""scribing  a  copy  for  sale,  suggests  that  "the  curious  little 
round  face-shaped  map  of  the  world  in  Wytfliet's  Ptolemieum  Aug- 
?nentum  "  may  be  the  one  referred  to  by  Shakspere. 

MUNSTER  (Sebastian). 

The  English  translation  of  Munster's  Cosmographia  Uniuersalis, 
— Basle,  1550,  is  described  under  Eden,  No.  95. 

Franc^ois  de  Belle-Forest,  in  his  French  recension  ot 
MuNSTFR,  entitled  Costnographie  Vni'verselle  .  .  .  augmentee, — 
Paris,  1 575,  3  volumes  folio,  inserted  a  passing  reference  to  a  search 
for  the  north-west  passage  by  a  Venetian  sailing  under  Henry  VII. 
of  England,  in  torn,  ii.,  column  2175.  ('75) 

MYCHELL  (William)     [Testament  of  William  Mychell 
of  London,  Chaplain,  dated  31  January,  1516-17.      (176) 

Manuscript  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  London,  Principal 
Registry  of  the  Probate,  Divorce  and  Admiralty  Division  of  the  High 
Court  of  Justice. 

Printed  by  Travers  Twiss,  in  the  Nautical  Magazine,  London, 
July,  1876,  xlv.  675. 

Mychell  bequeathed  y.  /\A.  to  his  goddaughter,  "  Elizabeth  filie 
Sebastiani  Caboto  filiole  mee."  There  is  no  means  of  determining 
whether  this  daughter  is  the  one  Cabot  mentions  in  his  letter  to 
Samano,  No.  38. 


NASH   (Bennett  Hubbard). 

See  note  under  Raimondo,  No. 


190,  tor  Professor  Nash's  trans- 


lation of  one  of  the  important  Cabot  documents. 

NAVAGERO    (Andrea)     [Dispatch    to    the    Senate    at 
Venice,  dated  21  September,  1525.  (^77) 

Manuscript  at  Venice,  Cicogna  MSS.  1985,  c.  223. 
Printed  by  Bullo,  No.  290, — Chioggia,  1880.     Translated  into 
English  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar  {Venice),  iii.  481. 

This  report  from  the  Venetian  ambassador  in  Spain  states  that 
an  armada  of  28  sail  left  Seville  between  the  15th  and  20th  of  the 
month,  under  the  command  of  Sebastian  Cabotto  venetiano,  and 


Cabot  Biblioai'apbp 


11 


that  it  was  expefled  that  new  discoveries  would  be  made,  including 
possibly  a  new  route  to  the  Spice-lands,  shorter  than  that  taken  by 
Magellan  in  the  Vittor'ta. 

A  memorandum  written  by  Navagero,  in  1528,  and  printed 
by  BuLLO,  p.  69,  from  the  Cicogna  MSS.  cod.  1985, ^  933,  suggests 
that  certain  news  received  in  Spain  from  Brazil  telling  of  the  arrival 
of  a  Spiceries  fleet,  may  refer  to  Cabot's  ships.  (178) 

NUREMBERGER  (Casimir). 

The  depositions  made  at  Seville,  28  July,  1530,  by  a  German 
sailor,  Casamieres  norenberguer  aleman — presumably  from  Nurem- 
burg — who  accompanied  Cabot  to  La  Plata,  in  regard  to  the  mis- 
management of  that  expedition,  is  printed  by  Harrisse,  Cabot, 
417-419.     See  the  note  under  Cabot,  No.  23.  (179) 

ORTELIUS  (Abraham)     Thea  trvm  orbis  terra  rvm — 
[Colophon]     Antverpia  m.d.lxx.  (180) 

Folio.     T  +  37  11  -f-  53  double-leaf  maps. 

This  is  the  first  edition  of  a  work  which  ranks  second  only  to 
the  Ptolemies  in  the  cartographic  importance  of  its  succeeding 
editions  for  the  study  of  the  growth  of  geographical  knowledge 
during  the  i6th-i7th  centuries.     For  a  detailed  bibliography  see  : 

Ecclesiae  Londini-Batavae  Archivum.  Tomus  primus.  Abrahami 
Ortelii  (Geographia  Antverpiensis)et  virorum  ervditorvm  .  .  . 
epistvlae.  Cvm  aliqvot  aliis  epistvlis  et  traftatibvs  qvibvsdam 
ab  vtroqve  colleflis  (i  524-1 628)  .  .  .  Edidit  Joannes  Henricvs 
Hessels. — Cantabrigia  i%ij  (181) 

4to.     Pp  i-lxxv  -I-  1-966  4-  portrait  and  facsimiles. 

The  bibliography,  pp.  xxvi-li,  is  based  on  an  essay  by  Dr.  P.  A. 
Thiele  in  Btbliographische  Adversaria, — Hague,  1876,  iii.  83. 

Ortelius  gives  a  "Catalogvs  avflorvm  tabvlarvm  geographi- 
carvm,"  which  contains  a  list  of  the  maps  consulted  by  him. 
Among  these  is  the  one  by  Sebastianvs  Cabotus  Venetus  described 
as  No,  39*. 

BiDDLE,  No.  261,  p.  56,  assumed  that  the  maps  in  Ortelius  were 
influenced  by  that  ot  Cabot,  and  suggested  various  surmises  as  to 
the  probable  charafteristics  of  Cabot's  map,  of  which  no  copy  was 
then,  1 83 1,  known.  These  surmises  have  not  been  verified  by  the 
discovery  of  the  mappemonde.  No.  39,  now  at  Paris, 


OVIEDO    Y    VALDES    (Gonzalo 
Historia  general  y  natural  de  las  Indias 


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por  el  capitan 


Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  Oviedo  y  Valdcs,  primer  cronista 
del  nuevo  mundo.  Publicala  la  real  academia  de  la  historia, 
cotejada  con  el  codice  original,  enriquecida  con  las  en- 
miendas  y  adiciones  del  autor,  e  ilustrada  con  la  vida  v 


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78  Cabot  aSiblloGrapbs 

el  juicio  de  las  obras  del  mismo  por  D.  Jose  Amador  de  los 
Rios. — Madrid  i8si-iSs5.  (182) 

4  vols.  4to.     Pp,  cxi  +  632;  511  i  651  ;  619;  plates. 

The  Historia  General  was  written  at  the  command  of  Charles  V., 
who  appointed  Oviedo  "  Royal  Chronicler  of  the  Indies  "  for  this 
purpose.  The  first  nineteen  books  were  written  before  1532  and 
printed  at  Seville  in  1535;  reprinted  Salamanca,  1547.  These  in- 
clude the  h!^story  of  Spanish  America  to  1527,  but  contain  no  men- 
tion of  Sebastian  Cabot.  The  rest  of  the  work  remained  in 
manuscript  until  printed  by  the  Spanish  Academy  of  History  in 
1852-5.     See  notes  to  Ramusio,  No.  192. 

The  important  account  of  Cabot's  expedition  to  La  Plata,  de- 
rived mainly  from  personal  intercourse  with  Alonso  de  Santa 
Cruz  and  from  other  participants  in  the  voyage,  is  in  lib.  xxiii. 
caps,  ii-v  }  vol.  ii,  169-180.  See  Dahlgren,  under  Santa  Cruz, 
No.  204.  Mr.  Dahlgren  translated  the  descriptive  passages  into 
English,  pp.  18-25,  explaining  the  close  agreement  between  this 
description  and  the  map  drawn  by  Santa  Cruz.  Another  transla- 
tion of  the  most  important  passages  is  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  203, 
228-229. 

Oviedo  describes  Cabot  as  ♦*  buena  persona  e  diestro  en  su 
ofli9io  de  la  cosmographia  y  de  ha9er  una  carta  universal  de  todo  el 
orbe  en  piano  6  en  un  cuerpo  espherico  ;  pero  otra  cosa  es  mandar 
y  gobernar  gsnte  que  apuntar  un  quadrante  6  astrolabio. 

PASQUALIGO    (Lorenzo)     [Letter  to  his  brothers  in 
Venice — dated  London^  23  August,  1497.  (^83) 

Copied  in  the  manuscript  Diarii  of  Marin  Sanuto,  No.  210, 
preserved  in  the  Marciana  Library  at  Venice,  under  date  of  11 
October,  1497,  i.  fol.  374. 

Printed  by  Rawdon  Brown,  No.  15, — Venicey  1837,  pt.  i.  99; 
in  Sanuto,  Diarii, — Venice,  1879,  '•  806-808,  and  in  many  of  the 
later  volumes  devoted  to  Cabot. 

Translated  by  Rawdon  Brown,  No.  16,  znd  Calen Jar  {Venice), 
1864.,  i.  262  5  frequently  reprinted. 

This,  the  earliest  known  description  of  C?bot's  1497  voyage, 
was  probably  written  within  a  fortnight  of  the  arrival  in  London 
of  the  news  that  the  Bristol  sailors  had  returned.  Pasqualigo 
reports  that  the  Venetian,  called  Zuam  Talbot,  said  that  he  had 
found  the  territories  of  the  Gram  Cam  on  the  mainland  at  a  dis- 
tance of  700  leagues,  having  coasted  300  leagues :  dice  haver  trovato 
lige  700  lontam  de  qui  Terraferma  el  paexe  del  Gram  Cam. 
Andato  per  la  costa  lige  300.  He  planted  a  large  cross  with  the 
flags  of  England  and  the  Venetian  St.  Mark.  He  did  not  see  any 
people  on  shore,  but  he  brought  back  to  the  king  snares  for  catching 
game  and  a  needle  for  making  nets  :  certi  lazi  ch'  era  testi  per 
prender  salvadexine,  e  uno  ago  da  far  rede.     From  certain  marks 


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79 


on  the  trees  he  judged  that  there  were  people  about,  and  retired 
to  his  ship.  The  voyage  certainly  occupied  three  months.  On 
the  return,  two  islands  were  seen  towards  the  right,  but  the  lack  of 
provisions  prevented  him  from  stopping  to  go  on  land  :  iudicha 
che  ze  persone.  Vene  in  nave  per  duhito  et  e  state  niexi  tre  sul 
viazoe  questo  e  certo  e  al  tornar  aldreto  a  visto  do  ixole  .  .  .  He 
noticed  the  slackness  of  the  tides.  Pasqualigo  goes  on  to  state  that 
he  was  enjoying  his  return  to  his  Venetian  wife  and  children  in 
Bristol.  He  was  called  "Admiral,"  el  gran  armirante,  with 
great  honour,  went  about  dressed  in  silk,  while  the  English  and 
foreign  residents  madly  besought  him  for  permission  to  accompany 
him  on  the  ten  ships  which  it  was  said  the  king  had  authorized  him 
to  equip  for  a  voyage  the  next  spring  :  el  re  le  ha  promesso  a  tempo 
novo  navil  x  e  armati  come  lui  vora  ed  ali  dato  tutti  i  presonieri 
da  traditori  in  fuora  che  vadano  con  lui  come  lui  a  rechiesto  e  ali 
dato  danari  fazi  bona  ziera  fino  a  quel  tempo  .  .  .  e  sti  Inglexi  li 
vano  diiedo  a  uio  pazi  c  pur  ne  volese  tanti  quanti  navrebe  con  lui 
e  etiam  molti  de  nostri  furfantl  {i.e.  Venetian ;  doubtless  all  thi" 
foreign  rogues  were  not  from  Venice). 

PERRENOT  (Antoine). 

A  request  for  the  return  of  Cabot  from  England  to  the  Imperial 
service,  conveyed  to  the  English  Ambassador  by  the  Bishop  of 
Arras,  the  Emperor's  envoy  in  Flanders,  is  mentioned  in  the  notes 
to  Cheyne,  No.  74. 

PHILIP  AND  MARY. 

The  documents  issued  in  the  name  of  Philip  and  Mary  arc 
described  under  Mary  Tudor,  Nos.  166-169. 

PTOLEMY  (Claudius). 

The  edition  of  Ptolemy's  Geography  published  in  Rome  in  1508 
described  under  RuYSCH,  No.  201. 

PUEBLA  (RuY  Gonzalez  de). 

See  Gonzalez  de  Puebla,  No.  119-120. 

PURCHAS  (Samuel)  Pvrchas  his  pilgrimage,  or  relations 
of  the  world  and  the  religions  observed  in  all  ages  And 
places  discouered,  from  the  Creation  unto  this  present.  In 
foure  Partes.  This  first  contai-neth  A  Theologicall  and 
Geographicall  Historic  of  Asia,  Africa,  and  America,  with 
the  Hands  Adiacent  .  .  .  With  briefe  Descriptions  of  the 
Countries,  Nations,  States,  Discoueries,  Priuate  and  Pub- 
like Customes,   and   the    most   Remarkable   Rakities   of 


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Nature,  or  Humane  Industrie,  in  the  same.     By  Samvel 
Pvrchas,  Minister  at  Est  wood  in  Essex. — London  1613 

(184) 
Folio.     T  +  I  J  11  +  pp  i-(754.)  +  10  11. 

PURCHAS  (Samuel)  Pvrchas  his  Pilgrimage  .  .  .  The 
second  Edition,  much  enlarged  with  Additions  through 
the  whole  Worke — London  16 14.  (185) 

Folio.    T  4- 13  n  +  pp  I -(900)  4-  18  11. 

Reissued  the  same  year  with  a  different  title  ;  reprinted  in  1617 
as  third  edition,  and  in  i6z6  as  fourth  edition  ;  see  No.  186.  See 
collations  and  notes  by  Wilberforce  Eames  in  Sabin,  DiSlionary  oj 
Books  relating  to  America, — Neiv  York,  1886,  x'  i.   1 12- 124. 

Cited  as  Purchas,  Pilgrimage. 

The  suggestion  that  the  new  world  '*  might  more  rightly  be 
termed  Cabotia,  or  Sebastiana,  of  Sebastian  Cabot,"  occurs,  perhaps 
for  the  first  time,  on  p.  602  of  the  161 3  edition. 

The  narratives  printed  by  Hakluyt  are  summarized  on  p.  620  : 
in  the  second  edition,  p.  738,  Purchas  suggests  that  Cabot  may 
have  been  concerned  in  the  voyage  of  Thome  and  Elio*  in  1527,35 
related  by  Hakluyt. 

PURCHAS  (Samuel)  Haklvytvs  Posthumus  or  Pvrchas 
his  Pilgrimes.  Contayning  a  History  of  the  World,  in 
Sea  voyages,  &  lande-Trauells,  by  Englishmen  &  others. 
Wherein  Gods  Wonders  .  .  .  w"'  a  world  of  the  Worlds 
Rarities,  are  by  a  world  of  Eywitnesse-Authors,  Re-lated 
to  the  World.  Some  left  written  by  M^  Hakluyt  at  his 
death  More  since  added,  His  also  perused,  &  perfected. 
All  examined,  abreuiated.  Illustrated  w*''  Notes,  En- 
larged w***  Dis-courses,  Adorned  w""  pidlures,  and  Expressed 
in  Mapps.  In  fower  Parts,  Each  containing  fiue  Bookes. 
By  Samvel  Pvrchas,  B.D. — London  1625.  (186) 

Folio.  4  volumes,  described  in  detail  by  Eames  in  Sabin,  as 
noted  above.  Usually  accompanied  by  the  4th  edition  of  the  Pil- 
grimage, 1626  (No.  185),  which  is  generally  known  as  vol.  v.  of 
this  set. 

Cited  as  Purchas,  Pilgrimes. 

The  Cabot  narratives  are  in  : 


i;i.'( 


PURCHAS  (Samuel)  Pvrchas  his  pilgrimes.  in  five  bookes 
.  .  .  The  fourth,  English  Northerne  Nauigations,  and 
Discoueries :  Relations  of  .  .  .  the  North-west  passage  .  .  . 


V. 


Cabot  JSibliodrapbs 


8i 


The  fifth,  Voyages  and  Trauels  to  and  in  the  New  World 
.  .  .  The  Third  Part  .  .  . — London  1625.  (187) 

Folio.     T  +  12  11  +  pp  i-(iio8)  +  34  11  +  3  maps. 

PURCHAS  (Samuel)  Pvrchas  his  pilgrimes.  in  five 
bookes.  The  sixth,  Contayning  English  Voyages,  to  the 
East,  West,  and  South  parts  of  America :  .  .  .  The 
ninth,  English  Plantations,  Discoueries,  A<fts,  and  Occur- 
ents,  in  Virginia  and  Summer  Hands,  .  .  .  The  tenth, 
English  Discoueries  and  Plantations  in  New  England, 
New-found-land  ;  with  the  Patent  and  Voyuges  to  New 
Scotland  .  .  .  The  Fourth  Part — London  r^25  (188) 

Folio.     T  4-  2  11  +  PP  "+'-(197')  +  20  11  +  z  maps. 

The  summary  of  Hakluyt,  iii.  807-808,  is  supplemented  by 
"  the  wordes  of  the  great  Map  ...  of  which  Sebastian  Cabot  is 
often  therein  called  the  Authour,  and  his  Pifture  is  therein  drawne, 
with  this  Title,  Effigies  (see  No.  52)  .  .  .  This  Map,  some  say, 
was  taken  out  of  Sir  Seb.  Cabots  Map  by  Clem.  Adams  1549." 
"  Sir  Sebastian  Cabot,  for  his  English  breeding,  conditions,  affec- 
tion and  aduancement,  termed  an  English  man." 

This  map  and  portrait  in  the  royal  privy  gallery  are  again  re- 
ferred to,  iv.  1812,  inconne6lion  with  the  account  of  the  Pert  1516 
voyage. 

RAGUSAN  (The). 

See  Marino  di  Bucignolo,  No.  158,  and  the  notes  to  Conta- 
RiNi,  No.  76,  and  Venice,  No.  225. 

RAIMONDO  DI  SONCINO.  [Dispatch  to  the  Duke 
of  Milan, — London^  24  August,  1497.  (^89) 

Two  versions  of  the  extract  from  this  report  which  relate  to 
Cabot  are  printed  by  Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  323  ;  one  of  these, 
he  suggests  in  his  Cabot,  391,  may  be  a  rendering  into  Italian  from 
Rawdon  Brown's  English  translation,  in  Calendar  (Venice),  i. 
260,  made  by  Sig.  BuLLO,  F^era  Patria,  60.  The  original  manu- 
script is  in  the  Archives  of  the  Sforza,  at  Milan. 

The  Milanese  agent  reported  that  a  Venetian  mariner  of  repute, 
sent  out  some  months  previously  by  the  English  king,  had  found 
two  fine  islands,  and  the  seven  cities,  400  leagues  west  of  England, 
and  that  the  king  planned  a  new  expedition  with  15  or  20  ships  : 
uno  Veneciano  el  quel  e  molto  bono  marinate  et  a  bona  scientia  de 
trovare  insule  nove  ...  a  ritrovato  due  insule  nove  grandissime 
et  fruftifFere  et  etiam  trovato  le  septe  citade  lontane  da  I'insula  de 
Ingliterra  lege  400  per  lo  camino  de  ponente. 

A  comparison  of  Rawdon  Brown's  translation,  reprinted  in 

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Amencan  History  Leaflet,  ix.  6-7,  with  that  of  Markham,  N0.451, 
p.  202,  is  suggestive:  also  translated  by  Beazley,  No.  256,  p. 
62. 


RAIMONDO   DI  SONCINO     [Dispatch  to  the  Duke 
of  Milan. — London^  18  December,  1497.  (^9°) 

Original  manuscript  in  the  State  Archives,  Milan,  Potenze  Estere, 
Inghilterra  1497.  decemb. 

Printed  in  the  Annuario  Scienttfico  del  1865, — Milan,  1866,  p. 
700;  correfled  in  Desimom,  No.  329, — Genoa,  1881,  pp.  53-55. 

A  translation  by  Professor  B.  H.  Nash  in  WiNSOR,  America, 
iii.  54-55,  has  been  frequently  reprinted. 

This  is  the  most  important  single  narrative  of  the  Cabot  dis- 
covery. The  Milanese  agent  reported  what  he  had  learned  from 
personal  interviews  with  the  poor  but  skilful  Venetian  Zoanne 
Caboto  :  uno  populare  Venetiano  .  .  .  de  gentile  ingenio,  peritis- 
simc  dela  navigatione  .  .  .  alienigena  et  povero.  Cabot  said  that 
the  newly  discovered  islands  acquired  by  Spain  and  Portugal  had 
suggested  to  him  the  possibility  of  a  similar  achievement  on  behalf 
of  England,  ie  sailed  with  a  little  ship,  fitted  out  from  Bristol, 
and  eighteen  ...en,  chiefly  English,  although  there  was  probably  one 
Burgundian  and  possibly  a  Genoese  barber  or  surgeon.  Steering 
westwards  from  Bristol,  beyond  Ireland,  he  turned  north,  laying  his 
course  Eastwards — i.e.,  not  a  mistake  for  westerly,  but  in  all  prob- 
ability meaning  "towards  the  Eastern  countries" — keeping  the  north 
star  for  a  while  o  his  right.  After  much  tossing  about,  he  hit 
upon  mainland,  of  which  he  took  possession  by  raising  the  royal 
banner :  passato  Ibernia  piu  occidentale,  e  poi  alzatosi  verso  el 
septentrione,  comencio  ad  navigare  ale  parte  orientale,  lassandosi 
(fra  qualche  giorni)  la  tramontana  ad  mano  drita,  et  havendo  assai 
errato,  iniine  capitoe  in  terra  .  .  .  et  preso  certi  segnali,  se  ne  re- 
tomato.  He  collefted  a  few  objefts  and  returned  to  England, 
where  he  showed  where  he  had  been  on  a  map  of  the  world  and  on 
a  globe  which  he  had  made, — see  No.  i9*>.  Cabot  and  his  English 
companions  agreed  in  saying  that  they  found  the  sea  full  of  fishes, 
which  could  be  caught  with  nets,  or  even  with  a  basket  sunk  by  a 
stone,  so  that  this  region  was  likely  to  supplant  the  trade  to  Iceland 
for  stockfish.  The  country  was  said  to  be  good,  and  temperate, 
and  they  thought  that  Brazil  wood  and  silk  grew  there :  et  dicono 
che  la  e  terra  optima  et  temperata,  et  estimanno  che  vi  nasca  el 
brasilio  et  le  sete,  et  affermanno  che  quello  mare  e  coptrto  de  pessi 
.  .  .  et  questo  io  liio  oldito  narrare  al  di£lo  messer  Zoanne.  Not 
content  with  this  fishing  tr-,de,  Cabot,  who  had  seen  at  Mecca  the 
caravaas  bringing  goods  of  the  far  East,  hoped  to  follow  the  coast 
to  Cipango-Japan,  where  he  expe£led  to  find  all  the  spices  and 
precious  stones.  The  king  promised  Cibot  some  ships  for  a  new 
expedition,  and  all  the  conviils  for  a  colony  in  the  new  land.  The 
discoverer  in  princely  fashion  had  presented  an  island  to  his  Bur- 


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gundian  companion,  and  another  to  his  Genoese  barber,  both  of 
whom  expefted  to  become  Covmts,  while  several  poor  Italian  friars 
who  were  going  to  the  new  land  had  been  promised  bishoprics : 
Hoancora  parlato  cum  uno  Borgognone  compagno  di  mess.  Zoanne 
chi  afFerma  tutto,  et  vole  tornarci  perche  lo  armirante  (che  gia 
messer  Zoanne  cosi  se  intitula)  li  ha  donato  una  Isola;  et  ne  ha 
donato  una  altra  ad  un  suo  barbero  da  ca^tione  Genovese.  This 
barber  "  da  castione  "  is  supposed  to  have  belonged  in  Castiglione 
near  Genoa  j  hence  it  is  inferred  that  Cabot  may  have  been  born  in 
that  place. 

The  closing  sentences  of  the  letter  describe  the  life  of  the  envoy 
in  England,  and  the  amount  of  credit  to  be  placed  upon  the  pre- 
ceding statements  depends  in  part  upon  the  impression  derived  from 
his  complaint  that  he  is  reduced  to  eating  ten  or  twelve  dishes  and 
sitting  many  hours  at  table  :  sono  redutto  in  questo  paese  ad 
mangiare  ogni  pasto  de  x  o  xii  vivande,  et  stare  tre  hore  ad  tavola 
per  volta  ogni  giorno  due  volte  per  amore  de'  Vostra  Excellentia. 
There  seems  to  be  nothing  in  this,  however,  which  necessarily  dis- 
credits the  obvious  purport  of  the  envoy's  report  about  Cabot. 

RAMIRLZ  (Luis)  [Letter  addressed  "  A  las  Sefloras  mis 
tias  la  de  Luis  Perez  y  Pedro  Gajardo  beso  las  manos  con 
las  de  las  Senoras  mis  primas  todas  [blank  in  the  original] 
Senores  sus  maridos  " — Do  Rio  da  Praia,  a  10  de  luUio 
de  1528.  (191) 

Printed  by  Varnhagen,  from  a  manuscript  in  the  Biblioteca 
alta  do  Escorial,  in  the  Revista  trimental  do  Instituto  historico  e 
geografico  do  Brazil — Rio  de  Janeiro,  1852,  xv.  14-41.  A  portion 
is  reprinted  in  Tarducci,  No.  539,  pp.  392-395  :  translated  into 
English  ir  Brownson's  Tarducci,  No.  540.  There  is  a  French 
version  in  the  Nowvelles  Annates  des  Voyages,  Paris,  1843,  part  iii. 

39-73. 

This  letter  contains  a  very  valuable  summary  of  what  had  hap- 
pened to  Cabot  and  his  expedition  since  the  departure  from  San 
Lucar  two  years  before. 

RAMUSIO  (Giovanni  Battista)  Libro  primo  della 
histo  ria  de  I'in  die  oc  ciden  tali  [mdxxxiiii] 

Svmmario  de  la  generale  historia  de  I'inc!^  occi-dentali 
cavato  da  li-bri  scritti  del  si-gnor  don  Pietro  Martyre  del 
consi  gl'  "*  delle  indie  della  rnaesta  de  I'imperadore,  et  da 
molte  altre  par-ticvla-ri  rela-tioni.  (^92) 

Small  4to.  T  +  11  2-79  +  map  -|-  T  -|-  11  2-64  +  2  11  +  T  + 
14  11. 

The  date  appears  on  the  titles  of  the  second  and  third  parts,  but 
not  on  the  first.     The  colophon  at  the  end  of  the  second  part 


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reads:  Stampafo  in  f^inegia,  nel  mese  di  Decembre,  Del.  1534.5 
and  at  the  end  of  the  third  part :  In  l^inegia,  Del  mese  d'Ottobre. 

MDXXXIIII. 

The  second  part  is  titled  :  Svmmario  de  la  natvrale  et  general 
histo  ria  de  I'Indie  occidental!,  composta  da  Gonzalo  ferdi-nando 
del  Ouiedo.  The  third  is  :  Libro  vltimo  del  svmma  rio  delle  indie 
oc  ciden  tali. 

Reprinted  in  the  third  volume  of  Ramusio's  Navigationi,  No. 
196. 

The  Cabot  narrative,  clearly  based  upon  that  in  Martvr,  Dec. 
III.  lib.  vi.  (see  notes  to  No.  159)  is  on  1.  (65).  Here,  however, 
the  "  pene  infans  "  passage  is  expanded  by  the  information  that  "da 
poi  la  morte  del  quale  (suo  padre)  trouandosi  ricchissimo,  &  di 
grade  animo,  delibero  si  come  hauea  fatto  Christophoro  Colombo 
voler  anchor  lui  scoprire  qualche  nuoua  parte  del  mondo."  The 
reference  to  westward  currents  is  omitted,  and  its  place  supplied 
by  a  much  more  vivid  description  of  the  catching  of  nsh  by  bears. 

See  note  under  Chauveton,  No.  73. 

The  internal  evidence  of  this  passage  affords  little  help  toward 
the  solut'on  of  a  problem  whose  importance  it  clearly  suggests  : 
whether,  as  M.  d'Avezac  suggested  in  his  Annie  heritable  de  la 
Naissance  de  Colomb, — Farts,  1 8  7  3,  p.  i  o,  n.  8 ,  portions  of  t  he  "  many 
other  private  accounts  "  which  are  mentioned  in  the  title  were  in- 
corporated into  the  text  of  this  translation  from  Peter  Martyr  by 
Ramusio,  who  has  been  accepted  as  the  probable  editor  of  this 
Summario  (see  Harrisse,  Colomb,  i.  92-94) ;  or  whether,  as  Mr.  J.  C. 
Brevoort  suggested  in  a  note  in  WiNsoR,  America,'\\\.  20,  this  Italian 
summary  is  another  and  earlier  form  of  the  material  which  Martyr 
rearranged  for  his  volume  printed  in  1516,  No.  159.  Neither 
alternative  throws  much  light  on  the  questions,  most  important  to 
the  students  of  Cabot,  as  to  whence  this  additional  information  was 
derived.  The  statements  seem  to  come,  more  or  less  indireflly, 
from  an  eyewitness,  presumably  through  Sebastian  Cabot.  But 
how  conveyed,  and  whether  before  151 5  or  before  15  3+,  is  not 
apparent. 


RAMUSIO  (Giovanni  Battista)  Primo  Volvme  delle 
Navigationi  et  Viaggi  ncl  qval  si  contiene  la  Descrittione 
deir  Africa  .  .  .  Et  la  Nauigatione  attorno  il  mondo. — 
Venetia  MDL.  (*93) 

Folio.    T  -J-  3  11  -f  11  1-405. 
Reprinted  as : 

RAMUSIO  (Giovanni  Battista)  Primo  volume,  et 
Seconda  editione  ...  in  molti  Ivoghi  corretta,  et  am- 
pliata.  .  .  .   Aggiuntoui  di    nuouo  ,  .  .  Tre  Tauole  di 


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Geographia  in  disegno — [Colophon]    .  .  .    renetia  .  .  . 
Luc'  Antonio  Giunti,  nel  mese  di  Marzo.  mdliiii.  (194) 

Folio.     T  +  3  U  +  11  1-34  +  1-436  +  3  maps. 

Reprinted  in  1563,  1588  (1587),  1606,  and  1613,  the  lext  re- 
maining virtually  unchanged  from  the  second  edition.  The  wood- 
cut maps  of  1554  were  replaced  by  copper  engravmgs,  which  are 
often  not  found  in  copies  having  their  original  bindings.  A  portion 
of  this  volume,  257  pages,  was  reprinted  with  the  imprint :  yenexia, 
co'  tipi  di  Luigi  Plet,  mdcccxxxvii. 

In  1563  the  name  of  Ramusio,  who  died  in  1559,  appeared  on 
the  title  as  editor. 

The  tantalizing  "  conversation  with  an  anonymous  guest  at  the 
house  of  Hieronimo  Fracastor"  at  Caphi  near  Verona,  occupies 
11.  413-415  ;  the  Cabot  passage  is  on  11.  414D-415A.  A  number  of 
changes,  chiefly  verbal,  were  made  in  the  text  of  this  conversation 
as  reprinted  in  the  succeeding  editions,  which  were  edited  from 
Ramusio's  manuscripts  and  notes  by  Tomaso  Giunti.  The  most 
interesting  of  these  is  the  addition  of  the  word  "  Mantouano,"  ot 
Mantua,to  the  introdu£lorychara6lerizationof  the  informant.  Eden, 
translating  this  narrative  for  his  Decades  of  1 555,  rewrote  the  head- 
ing to  read,  1.  249  :  " .  .  .  Also  of  th?  vyagi  to  Cathay  and  East 
India  by  the  north  sea :  And  of  certeyne  secreates  touchynge  the 
same  vyage,  declared  by  the  duke  of  Moscouie  his  ambassadoure 
to  an  excellent  lerned  gentelman  of  Italie,  named  Galeatius 
Butrigarius.  Lykewyse  of  the  vyages  of  that  woorthy  owlde  man 
Sebastian  Cabote  .  .  ."  Hakluyt  borrowed  Eden's  translation  for 
his  Voyages,  iii.  6-7,  although  he  used  the  marginal  reference, 
"••iken  out  of  the  second  volume  of  y"  voyages  of  Baptista 
Ra.nusius,"  and  altered  the  title,  to  read  :  "  A  discourse  of  Sebas- 
tian Cabot  .  .  .  vsed  to  Galeacius  Butrigarius  the  Popes  Legate 
in  Spaine,  and  reported  by  the  sayd  Legate  in  this  sort." 

Harrisse,  in  his  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  338,  and  more  fully  in  his  Cabot, 
463-465,  shows  conclusively  that  inasmuch  as  Galeazzo  Bottrigari 
or  Butrigario  died  in  1518,  before  the  date  of  events  which  Cabot  is 
reported  to  have  described  to  the  "  Mantuan  gentleman,"  these 
two  could  not  have  been  the  same  person.  Harrisse  also  finds  no 
reason  for  accepting,  with  Deane  in  Winsor,  America,  iii.  26,  the 
arguments  of  Bullo  and  Desimoni,  who  have  tried  to  prove  that 
the  Mantuan  was  GianGiacomo  Bardolo. 

The  date  of  the  reported  interview  at  Caphi  is  fixed  by 
d'Avezac,  in  a  careful  study  of  the  passage  in  the  Revue  Critique, 
V.  265,  as  approximately  1544  or  1545. 

The  report  of  this  conversation  is  the  most  perplexing  single 
piece  of  information  regarding  the  Cabots.  The  style  in  which  it 
IS  recorded,  the  apparently  direft  personal  intercourse  between  the 
several  communicants,  the  use  of  the  rhetorical  present  tense  which 
seems  to  give  the  exaft  words  used  by  Cabot,  the  evident  respe6la- 
bility  and  authority  of  the  unnamed  gentleman,  and  even  the  osten- 
tatious disavowal  of  any  pretentions  to  exaft  recolleftion — all  these 


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fails  tend  to  obscure  the  absolute  unreliability  of  the  entire  passage. 
The  length  of  time  that  had  elapsed,  the  absenceof  anything  which 
might  have  fixed  the  specific  details  clearly  in  the  memory,  the 
very  eminence  of  individuals  which  has  so  often  been  held  to  relieve 
them  from  the  necessity  of  detailed  exaflness,  the  essential  levity  of 
the  occasion  when  Ramusio  received  the  information,  need  to  be 
considered,  together  with  the  most  important  faft  of  all,  that  Cabot, 
the  Mantuan,  and  Ramusio  were  each,  on  every  occasion  when  the 
information  was  transmitted,  chiefly  interested  in  something — the 
best  way  to  reach  the  Spice  lands  from  Europe — which  had  only 
the  slightest  connexion  with  the  details  over  which  the  modern 
historical  controversies  about  Cabot  have  raged. 

Ramusio  reports  that  during  a  pause  in  their  conversation,  the 
Mantuan  gentleman — vn  gentiP  huomo,  grandissimo  philosopho, 
&  mathematico  .  .  .  il  nome  del  quale  per  suoi  rispetti  non  si  dice 
— asked  if  they  were  unaware  of  the  achievements  of  a  very  eminent 
Venetian  living  in  Spain  :  quel  che  fece  (Eden,  "  as  dyd  of  late  ") 
gia  vn  vostro  cittadino  Venetiano,  ch'e  cosi  valente  &  pratico 
delle  cose  pertinenti  alia  nauigatione,  &  alia  cosmographia,  ch'  in 
Spagna  al  presente  non  v'e  vn  suo  pari,  &  la  sua  virtu  I'ha  fatto 
p.eporre  a  tutti  li  pilotti  che  nauigano  all'  Indie  occidentali.  He 
proceeded  to  tell  them  that  when  he  was  in  Seville  a  few  years  pre- 
viously, he  sought  the  acquaintance  of  this  man,  Sebastiano  Caboto, 
who  met  him  courteously  and  showed  him,  among  other  things, 
the  map  described  as  No.  42  :  ritrouandosi  gia  alcuni  anni  (Eden, 
"  beinge  certeyne  yeares  in  Siuile")  nella  citta  di  Siuiglia,  &  desi- 
derando  di  saper  di  cjlle  nauigationi  di  Castigliani,  gli  fu  detto, 
che  v'era  vn  gra  vaient'  huomo  Venetiano  che  hauea  '1  carico 
di  quelle  .  .  .  il  qual  sapeua  far  carte  marine  di  sua  mano,  &  in- 
tendeua  Tarte  del  nauigare  piu  ch'  alcun  altro  .  .  .  lo  trouai  vna 
gentilissima  persona  &  cortese.  Cabot  said  that  his  father  had  left 
Venice  many  years  before  and  settled  in  London  as  a  merchant,  he 
being  still  very  young,  although  he  had  studied  the  humanities 
and  geography.  His  father  died  about  the  time  that  the  English 
court  began  to  discuss  the  news  of  Columbus'  wonderful  discovery. 
Feeling  a  desire  to  achieve  something  equally  great,  he  convinced 
Henry  VII.  by  means  of  the  globe  that  there  was  a  shorter  route 
westward  to  the  Indies.  In  the  early  summer  of  14.96 — (Eden 
interpolated,  "as  farre  as  I  remember."  Ramusio,  at  the  be- 
ginning of  his  report  of  the  whole  conversation,  wrote  :  II  qua! 
ragionamento  non  mi  basta  I'animo  di  poter  scriuer  cosi  parti- 
coTarmente  com'  io  lo  vdi,  perche  visaria  di  bisogno  altro  ingegno, 
&  altra  memoria,  che  non  ela  mia,  pur  mi  sforzero  sommariamente, 
&  come  per  capi  di  recitar  quel  che  mi  potro  ricordare) — the  king 
furnished  him  with  two  well  equipped  caravels  with  which  he  sailed 
westwards,  expe6ling  to  reach  Cathay  and  thence  to  proceed  to 
India  :  &  cominciai  a  nauigar  verso  maestro,  pensando  di  non 
trouar  terra  se  non  quella  doue  e  il  Cataio,  &  di  li  poi  voltar  verso 
le  Indie.  The  land  which  he  came  upon  trended  northward,  and 
he  followed  this,  in  the  hope  of  finding  a  passage  to  the  west,  as 


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far  as  56°,  where  the  coast  turned  to  the  east.  Returning,  he  con- 
tinued the  search  southwards  as  far  as  Florida — the  name  by  which 
all  the  south-eastern  portion  of  the  present  United  States  was  known 
in  1550  :  ma  in  capo  d'  alquanti  giorni  la  discopersi  che  correua 
verso  tramontana,  che  mi  hi  d'  infinito  dispiacere,  &  pur  andando 
dietro  la  costa  per  vederc  s'  io  poteua  trouar  qualche  golfo,  che 
voltasse,  non  vi  fu  mai  ordine,  che  andato  sin  a  gradi  cinquantasei 
sotto  il  nostro  polo,  vedendo  che  quiui  la  cnsta  voltaua  verse 
leuante,  disperato  di  trouarlo,  me  ne  tomai  a  dietro  a  ricognoscere 
anchora  la  detta  costa  dalla  parte  verso  I'equinottiale.  sempre  con 
intentiopc  di  trouar  passaggio  alle  Indie,  &  venni  sino  a  quella 
parte  che  chiamono  al  presente  la  Florida,  &  mancandomi  gia  la 
vettouaglia,  presi  partito  di  ritornarmene  in  Inghilterra.  Returning 
to  England,  he  found  the  attention  of  king  and  court  absorbed  in 
an  internal  rebellion  and  war  with  Scotland,  so  that  he  offered  his 
services  to  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  who  sent  him  on  a  voyage  of 
discovery  to  the  coast  of  Brazil.  (Perkin  Warbeck's  rebellion  was  in 
June,  1497  ;  the  truce  with  James  IV.  of  Scotland  in  September, 
1497;  the  death  of  Isabella  in  15045  Cabot's  employment  by 
Ferdinand  in  i;i2  ;  and  his  La  Plata  voyage  in  1526.  All  these 
may  have  been  jumbled  in  this  curious  fashion  by  Cabot  ;  it  is  in- 
finitely more  reasonable  to  suppose  that  Cabot  mentioned  these 
things  to  his  visitor,  in  whose  mind  they  arranged  themselves  re- 
gardless of  chronology  or  aftual  association.)  He  described  the 
exploration  of  La  Plata  for  200  leagues :  trouata  vn  grossissimo, 
&  larghissimo  fiume,  detto  al  presente  della  Plata,  lo  volsi  nauigare, 
&  andai  all'  insu  per  quelle  piu  di  secento  leghe  troiiandolo  sempre 
bellissimo,  &  hab'tato  da  infiniti  popoli,  che  per  marauiglia 
correuano  a  vedermi,  &  in  quello  sboccauano  tanti  fiumi,  che  non 
si  potria  credere.  He  concluded  by  saying,  "  I  made  many  other 
voyages,  which  I  do  not  mention,  and  at  last,  finding  that  I  was 
growing  old,  I  wished  to  rest,  after  having  instrufted  so  many 
practical  and  valiant  young  seamen,  by  whose  forwardness  I  rejoice 
in  the  fruit  of  my  labour."  "  Cjuesto  e  quanto  io  intesi  dal  signor 
Sebastiano  Caboto." 

It  should  be  noted  that  the  statement  regarding  his  father's  death 
shows  clearly  the  influence  of  Ramusio's  S'vmmario  oi  1534,  No. 
192,  and  that  the  two  ships  as  distinftly  suggest  Martyr,  No.  1 59. 

An  exegetical  interpretation  or  explanation  of  the  difliculties  in 
this  narrative,  by  Archbishop  O'Brien,  No.  470,  p.  cxxxix,  suggests 
that  Sebastian's  father  may  really  have  died  at  about  the  time  the 
news  reached  England  of  the  discovery  of  the  South  American 
mainland  by  Columbus  in  1498, 

See  notes  to  Hakluyt,  No.  128,  and  La  Popellini^re,  No. 

155- 

RAMUSIO  (Giovanni  Battista)  Secondo  Volvme  delle 
Navigation!  et  Viaggi — Fenetia  mdlix.  (Colophon, 
MDLViii.)  (195) 


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Folio.     T  +  2  11 +  11  a-z8  +  1-156. 

"Nvova  cditione  accrescivto,"  1573  ;  third  edition,  with  further 
additions,  158}  ;  reprinted,  1606,  in  which  year,  for  the  only  time, 
the  three  volumes  appeared  together  with  the  same  imprint. 

The  edition  of  1583  contained  for  the  first  time:  Navigatione 
di  Sebastiano  Cabota  .  .  .  Discoprimento  del  mare  settentrionale 
sino  al  gran  Hume  Obbo,  fatto  del  mese  ili  Maggio  del  1556;  11. 
111-219.  This  agrees,  for  the  most  part,  with  the  Navigation  of 
Burroughs,  No.  18,  but  the  differences  are  such  as  could  only 
have  resulted  from  independent  copies  of  an  original  journal,  or 
from  the  logs  of  different  sailing  masters.  There  is  a  short  intro- 
duflion,  which  shows  much  classical  learning,  presumably  written 
by  the  Italian  editor,  and  which  contains  the  reasons  urged  by 
Cabot  in  favour  of  this  north-east  expedition,  whence  the  mislead- 
ing heading.  ('95*) 

A  reference  to  this  narrative,  verbally  correft,  in  Leon  Pinelo* 
Biblioteca,  No.  436, — Madrid,  1629,  p.  45,  led  his  continuator,  the 
Marques  de  Torre-Nueva,  Biblioteca  anadido  y  enmendado, — 
Madrid,  1737,  i.  col.  377,  into  the  statement,  likewise  correft,  that 
this  narrative  of  Sebastian's  voyage  was  printed  in  Italian  in  1583. 
Leon  Pinelo  in  1629  having  also  stated,  presumably  correftly,  that 
this  Cabot  narrative  was  written  in  English,  therefore  Navarrete, 
No.  466, — Madrid,  1851,  ii.  698,  credited  him  with  the  statement 
that  Sebastian  wrote  an  account  of  the  voyage  of  1497,  which  was 
printed  in  English  and  also  in  Italian  in  1583.  ('95'') 


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RAMUSIO  (Giovanni  Battista)  Terzo  Volvme  delle 
Navigationi  et  Viaggi  nel  qvale  si  contengono  Le  Nauiga- 
tioni  al  Mondo  Nuouo,  alii  Antichi  incognito,  fatte  da 
Don  Christoforo  Colombo  .  .  .  con  gli  acquisti  fatti  da 
lui,  Et  accresciuti  poi  da  .  .  .  altri  valorosi  Capitani,  in 
diuerse  parti  delle  dette  Indie  .  .  .  Le  Nauigationi  fatte 
dipoi  alle  dette  Indie,  poste  nella  parte  verso  Maestro  Tra- 
montana,  dette  hora  la  Nvova  Francia,  scoperte  al  Re 
Christianiss.  la  prima  volta  da  Bertoni  &  Normandi,  Et 
dipoi  da  Giouanni  da  Verrazzano  ...  Si  come  dimostra- 
no  le  diuerse  Relationi,  tradotte  di  lingua  Spagnuolo  & 
Francese  nella  nostra — Venetia  mdlvi.  (196) 

Folio.  T  -}- 11  2-6  +  1-3+  +  '-456.  The  pagination  includes 
7  folded  maps. 

Reprinted  in  1565,  and  with  additions  in  1606. 

The  S'vmmario  of  1534  constitutes  the  first  part  of  this  third 
volume,  the  Cabot  passage  being  on  11.  35-36,  with  a  separate  head- 
ing :  Come  Sebastian  gabatto  Vinitiano  partitosi  dTnghilterra  per 
scoprir  nuoue  terre  in  certo  luoco  trouo  la  tramontana  sopra  dise 
eleuata  .55.  gradi,  Sc  la  notte  in  quel  luoco  non  esser  simile  alle 


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nostre,  &  in  che  modo  gliorsi  faccino  lacacciacon  certi  pcfici  grand! 
detti  baccalai. 

In  the  preliminary  Discorso,  1.  4,  Kamusio  remarks  that  he  did 
not  know  whether  there  was  an  open  water  passage  through  to 
Cathay  north  of  50°,  "  as  was  written  to  me  many  years  ago  by 
Sebastian  Gabotto,"  a  great  cosmographer,  who  sailed  beyond  New 
France  under  Henry  VIII.  •«  And  he  told  me  that  having  sailed 
a  long  time  west  and  by  north,"  to  67",  and  finding  the  sea  still 
open  on  June  11,  he  had  hoped  to  follow  that  route  to  Cathay,  but 
the  sailors  refused  to  continue :  mi  diceua,  come  essendo  egli 
andato  lungamete  alia  volta  di  ponente  Sc  quarta  di  Maestro  dietro 
queste  Isole  poste  iQgo  la  detta  terra  fino  a  gradi  sessantasette  & 
mezzo  sotto  ii  nostro  polo,  a'  xi.  di  Giugno,  &  trouandosi  il  mare 
aperto,  &  senza  impedimento  alcuno,  pensaua  fermamente  p  quella 
via  di  poter  passare  alia  volta  del  Cataio  Orientale,  &  I'  haurebbe 
fatto,  se  la  malignita  del  padrone  &  de  marinari  solleuati  non 
r  hauessero  fatto  tornare  a  dietro.  ('96') 

An  admirable  bibliography  of  the  Ramusio  colleftion,  with 
careful  collations  and  an  inventory  of  the  contents  of  the  respeftive 
volumes,  by  Wilberforce  Eames,  is  in  Sabin,  DiSlionary  of  Books 
relating  to  America, — Nenv  York,  1886,  xvi.  303-316. 

RASTELL  (JofiN). 

The  New  Interlude  of  the  Four  Elements,  No.  5, 
should  have  been  described  at  this  place,  according  to  Bale,  who 
states  that  Rastell  was  the  author;  Summarium,  fo.  221*.  See 
a  note  on  the  authorship  of  this  pamphlet,  by  Professor  J.  M. 
Manly  in  the  Journal  of  Germanic  Philology^ — Bloomington,  Indiana, 
1899,  ii.  425-6. 

RIBAULT  (Jean)  The  Whole  and  true  discouerie  of 
Terra  Florida,  (englished  the  Florishing  lande.)  Con-teyn- 
ing  as  well  the  wonderfull  straunge  na-tures  and  maners 
of  the  people,  with  the  mer-ueylous  commodities  and 
treasures  of  the  country :  As  Iso  the  pleasaunt  Portes, 
Hauens,  and  wayes  therevnto  Neuer  founde  out  before  the 
last  yere  1562.  Written  in  Frenche  by  Captaine  Ribauld 
the  fyrst  that  whollye  discouered  the  same.  And  nowe 
newly  set  forthe  in  Englishe  the .  xxx  .  of  May.  1 563 — 
London  ('97) 

Small  8vo.     T  +  22  11. 

Reprinted  in  Hakluyt,  Z)/<i;^ri  l^oyages,  pp.  91-115  in  Hakluyt 
Society,  1850,  edition  ;  and  in  B.  F.  French,  Historical  ColkSlions 
of  Louisiana  and  Florida, — Nenv  York,  1875,  ii.  159-190. 

The  date  1498  is  given,  for  the  first  time  in  a  printed  account  of 
a  Cabot  voyage,  on  1.  sig.  A  iij,  p.  92  of  1850  edition. 


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RIBEIRO  (Diego)  Carta  Universal  en  que  se  contiene 
todo  lo  que  del  mundo  Se  ha  descubierto  fasta  Agora : 
Hizola  Diego  Ribero  Cosmographo  de  Su  Magestad  :  Ano 
de  1529.  (198) 

Manuscript  map,  217.3  ><  89.1  cmm.  (Harrisse)  or  6.81x2.9ft. 
(Lelewel).     In  the  Grand  Ducal  Library  at  Weimar. 

Another  example  of  this  map,  with  a  similar  inscription,  except 
for  the  additional  words,  "en  Sevilla,"  following  the  date,  is  in  the 
Library  of  the  Propaganda  at  Rome.  It  measures  nearly  a  third 
larger  than  the  Weimar  map.  (198*) 

The  Weimer  map  was  described,  with  a  full-size  facsimile  in 
colours  of  the  American  portion,  in  Kohl, 

Diebeiden  altesten  general-karten  von  Amerika — Weimar,  i860. 

(199) 
Large  folio.     2  T  +  ■  ^  v-x  +  1-185  +  2  facsimiles. 

Both  are  discussed  by  Harrisse,  Disco-very,  569-575.  There 
are  copies  from  the  maps  in  Sprengel,  Ueber  J.  Riberd's  dlteste 
nvelt-charte, —  Weimar,  1795,  and  in  his  translation  of  Mufioz, 
Geschichte  der  neuen  Welt, — Weimar,  1795  ;  in  Lelewel,  G/o^rfl/>;4;>, 
sec.  172  and  204,  Atlas,  planches  xli-xlii  and  p.  30;  and  in  various 
books  about  Verrazano. 

A  map,  clearly  akin  to  the  Ribeiro  in  the  Propaganda,  is  pre- 
served in  the  Grand  Ducal  Library  at  Wolfenbiittel .  see  Harrisse, 
pucp'jery,  580-581. 

At  the  north  of  the  Weimar  map,  just  above  Tiera  del  La- 
bi-Jidor,  is  the  legend  :  Esta  tierra  descubriero  los  Ingleses  no  ay  sn 
ti'a  cosa  .' .  prouecho.  In  the  Rome  map,  this  reads  :  los  Ingleses 
de  !a  uiila  de  bristol.  Harrisse  states  that  this  "clearly  indicates 
tht  discovery  accciupiished  by  John  Cabot,  but  ascribed  by  Ribero 
to  Sebastian,  who  was  in '^1529  his  superior  in  the  service  of  the 
Castillian  Crown,  and  from  whom  he  certainly  gathered  most  ot 
his  data  concerning  the  north-eastern  regions." 

RODAS  (Miguel  de). 

ROJAS  or  ROXAS  (Francisco  de). 

The  depositions  of  the  several  parties  to  the  lawsuits  which 
followed  Cabot's  return  from  his  expedition  to  La  Plata  are  de- 
scribed as  Nos.  23-37. 


ROMANIN  (Samuele)     Storia  documentata  di  Venezia 
di  S.  Romanin — Venezia  1853  (-1861)  (200) 

8vo.     10  volumes. 


See  note  under  Venice,  No. 
printed  in  this  work,  iv.  4.53. 


224.,  for  a  Cabot  document  first 


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RUYSCH  (Johannes)  In  hoc  opere  haec  conti-nentvr 
Geographiae  CI.  Ptolemaei  a  plurimis  uiris  utriusq^  linguae 
doi^iss.  emedata  .  .  . 

Noua  orbis  descriptio  ac  noua  Oceani  nauigatio  qua 
Lisbona  ad  Indicii  peruenitur  pelagus  Marco  Beneuentano 
monacho  caele-stino  sedita.  Noua  &  uniuersalior  Orbis 
cogniti  tabula  lou.  Ruysch  Germano  elaborata — mdviii. 
Rome  (201) 

Folio.     T  +  106  +  34  11  +  34  double  page  maps. 

For  the  detailed  collation  of  this,  as  of  all  the  editions  of 
Ptolemy's  Geography,  see  the  titles  and  notes  by  Wilberforce 
Eames  in  Sabin,  DiSlionary  of  Books  relating  to  America, — Nenx; 
York,  1886,  xvi.  43-87. 

The  important  addition  to  this  edition  was  a  map  at  the  end  : 
Vni-versalior  cogniti  orbis  tabvla  ex  recen-tibvs  conf'e6la  observa- 
tioni-bvs.    It  measures  54  x  40  cmm.,  or  21  i-  x  16  inches.     (201") 

This  is  the  earliest  engraved  map  which  shows  the  north-wes- 
tern American  regions.  It  is  accompanied  by  an  elaborate  analysis 
of  its  contents  by  Beneventanus,  entitled  "orbis  noua  descriptio," 
which  adds  almost  nothing  to  the  geographical  evidence  of  the 
map,  which  was  apparently  the  only  source  of  information  used  by 
Beneventanus,  except  the  Itfter  or  explanation  sent  by  Ruysch  from 
Germany  with  the  original  drawing.  It  contains,  however,  the 
very  interesting  information  that  Ruysch  '*  says  that  he  has  sailed 
from  southern  England  towards  the  north  to  the  53''  degree,  and 
along  this  parallel  to  the  eastern  shores"  :  loanes  v'o  Ruschi 
Germanus  Geographo^  meo  iudicio  pitissimus  .  .  .  dixit :  se 
nauigasse  ab  albionis  australi  parte  :  &  ta  diu  quo  ad  subparallelu 
ab  subaequatore  ad  borea  sub  gf.  53.  puenit  :  &  in  eo  parallelo  na 
uigasse  ad  ortus  littora  perangulG  no6lis  atq^  plures  insulas  lustrasse. 
It  has  been  surmised  that  Ruysch  may  have  accompanied  Cabot  to 
America,  although  the  configuration  and  legends  of  the  map  show 
nothing  to  confirm  this  idea. 

The  sources  used  by  Ruysch,  which  may  have  included  Cabot's 
charts,  although  there  is  no  evidence  to  substantiate  this  sugges- 
tion, are  discussed  in  detail  by  Harrisse,  Disco'very,  449-453. 

RYMER  (Thomas)  Foedera,  Conventiones,  Literae,  Et 
Cujuscunque  Generis  adla  publica,  inter  reges  anglia;,  Et 
Alios  quosvis  imperatores,  reges,  pontifices,  principes,  vel 
communitates,  ab  .  .  .  Anno  i  loi,  ad  nostra  usque  Tem- 
pora,  Habita  aut  Trailata ;  Ex  Autographis  .  .  .  Accu- 
rante  Thoma  Rymer  [potissimumedidit  Robertus  Sander- 
son] .  .  .  Editio  secunda  .  .  .  studio  Georgii  Holmes — 
Londini,  mdccxxvii  (-1735).  (202) 


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Folio.     »o  volumes. 

The  third  edition,  with  an  Abrege  historique  by  J.  Le  Clerc,  con- 
linuwd  by  P.  Rapin  Thoyras,  was  printed— //fl^«  Comitis,  1739" 
1745,  folio,  10  volumes.  Reprinted  by  the  Commissioners  on  the 
Public  Records, — London,  1 8 1 6. 

A  syllabus  in  English,  with  an  exhaustive  index  prepared  by  Mr. 
Hardy,  was  printed — London,  1869,  1873,  1885. 

See  references  under  Henry  VII.,  No.  136;  Edward  VI.,  No. 
99;  and  Mary  Tudor,  No.  167. 

S.  (F.  G.). 

See  notes  under  Martyr,  No.  162,  for  the  map  dedicated  by 
F.  G.  S.  to  Richard  Hakluyt  in  1587.  It  is  probable,  however, 
that  the  S.  merely  stands  for  Salutat,  the  author  being  F.  G. 

SAMANO  QuAN  de). 

Sebastian  Cabot's  letter  to  Samano,  the  secretary  of  Charles  V., 
is  No.  38.  It  is  probable  that  some  of  the  letters  described  as  from 
the  Emperor — Nos.  66-72 — were  prepared  by  his  secretary. 

SANTA  CRUZ  (Alonso  de)  Nova  verier  et  integra 
totivs  orbis  descriptio  nvnc  primvm  in  Ivcem  edita  per 
Alfonsvm  de  Sanfta  Crvz  Caesaris  Charoli  .V.  archicos- 
mographvm.     a.d.  m.d.xlii.  (203) 

World  map  on  three  connedled  sheets  of  parchment,  measuring 
144  X  79  cmm.,  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Stockholm.  It  is  drawn 
in  two  hemispheres,  each  composed  of  36  gores,  the  whole  repre- 
senting a  globe  with  a  radius  of  19.48  cmm.  The  faft  that  the 
hemispheres  are  surrounded  by  a  border,  20  mm.  wide,  shows  that 
the  gores  were  not  intended  to  be  cut  out  for  pasting  on  a  globe, 
but  that  this  constru6lion  was  adopted  as  a  device  for  securing  a 
realistic  projection  on  a  plane  surface. 

The  sheets  have  been  reproduced  in  facsimile  in  : 

Map  of  the  world  by  the  Spanish  cosmographer  Alonzo  de  Santa 
Cruz  1542  reproduftion  in  phototypic  facsimile  by  the  printing 
office  of  the  Swedish  Staff-General  with  explanations  by  E.  W. 
Dahlgren — Stockholm,  1892.  (204) 

Imperial  4to.  2  T  -|-  i  1  -f-  5  double  sheet  facsimiles.  Text : 
royal  8vo.     2  T  +  PP  3-47'     100  copies. 

This  is  the  only  example  of  a  mappemonde  drawn  by  Santa  Cruz 
which  has  yet  been  brought  to  light  and  identified.  Although  the 
author  accompanied  Cabot  to  La  Plata  in  1526,  the  map  shows 
nothing  of  the  region  traversed  by  Cabot's  expedition  which  is  not 
on  Ribeiro's  maps  of  1529.  The  name  "  R.  dla  Plata,"  how- 
ever, appears  on  this  map  for  the  first  time.  As  compared  with 
the  1 544  Cabot  map,  the  Santa  Cruz  map  presents  the  outline  of 


Cabot  JSiblioorapb^ 


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La  Plata  in  much  more  realistic  form,  showing  clearly  that  it  did 
not  serve  as  a  model  for  the  1 544  map.  The  general  type  of  the 
river  basin  in  the  two  is  nevertheless  the  same. 

The  description  of  the  region  visited  by  Cabot  in  1526,  as  given 
by  OviEDO,  No.  182,  from  information  derived  verbally  from  Santa 
Cruz,  is  in  agreement  at  every  essential  point  with  the  details  on 
this  Santa  Cruz  map.  This  agreement  is  treated  at  length  by  Mr, 
Dahlgren  in  his  explanatory  text,  which  is  a  model  ot  intelligent 
and  scholarly  cartographic  editing.  In  Mr.  Dahlgren's  opinion, 
the  Santa  Cruz  gores  represent  the  nearest  approach,  yet  known  to 
students,  to  the  official  Padron  Real,  the  great  map  upon  which 
the  Spanish  hydrographic  and  navigation  board  recorded  the  most 
complete  and  most  authentic  information  at  its  command  concern- 
ing the  newly  discovered  portions  of  the  world. 

SANTA  CRUZ  (Alonso  de)  Libro  de  las  Longitudes 
y  manera  que  hasta  agora  se  ha  tenido  en  el  arte  de 
navegar,  con  sus  demonstraciones  y  ejemplos,  dedicado  a 
Felipe  II.  (205) 

Manuscript  in  the  Biblioteca  Nacional  at  Madrid,  Aa  97. 

In  this  undated  work,  prepared  for  the  use  of  the  king,  Santa 
Cruz  quotes  "the  method  of  Sebastian  Caboto,  Pilot-Major  to  His 
Majesty  in  England,  for  obtaining  the  longitude  [at  sea]  by  means 
of  the  declination  of  the  sun,  as  communicated  by  a  certain  person 
to  Philip  II."  Harrisse,  Cabot,  4.54-456,  prints  the  Spanish  text, 
with  an  English  translation  on  pp.  302-306.  By  means  of  an 
elaborate  mathematical  analysis  and  illustration  of  this  method,  Mr. 
Harrisse  becomes  convinced  that  "  the  error  in  longitude,  when 
following  Cabot's  method,  would  have  a6lually  reached  sixty 
degrees,  that  is,  one-sixth  of  the  circumference  of  the  globe,"  p.  308. 

SANTA  CRUZ  (Alonso  de)  El  yslario  general  de  todas 
las  yslas  del  mondo  endres^ado  ala  S.  C.  C.  Mag'  del 
Emperador  y  Rey  nuestro  Senor,  por  Alonso  de  San6la 
Cruz,  su  Cosmografo  maior — 1 560.  (206) 

Manuscript  copies  of  this  work  are  preserved  in  the  Besangon 
City  Library,  No.  460  (124  11.  4to) ;  and  in  the  Imperial  Library  at 
Vienna,  MSS.  Cod.  Pal.  l^indol.,  Nos.  5542  and  7195  (2  copies).  A 
modern  transcript  belonging  to  Mr.  Harrisse  is  mentioned  in  his 
Disco'very,  p.  621.  See  Navarrete,  Opusculos — Madrid,  1848,  ii. 
82,  for  a  note  on  a  copy  that  cannot  now  be  found. 

Extrafts  from  this  Yslario,  describing  Cabot's  exploration  of  La 
Plata,  in  which  Santa  Cruz  participated,  are  printed  by  Harrisse, 
Cabot,  409-411.  The  details  in  this  passage,  added  to  those  com- 
municated by  Santa  Cruz  to  Oviedo,  No.  182,  are  the  chief  means 
for  an  intelligible  interpretation  of  the  geographical  results  of  that 
exploration. 


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94  Cabot  ISibUodrapbp 

The  deposition  made  by  Santa  Cruz  on  board  the  ship  Santa 
Maria  del  Espinar,  at  Seville,  28  July,  1530,  in  reply  to  questions 
concerning  the  manner  in  which  Cabot  had  condufled  the  expedition 
to  La  Plata,  is  printed  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  419-4.22.  See  note  to 
Cabot,  No.  23.  (207) 

SANTA   CRUZ  (Francisco  de). 

The  Informacion  pedida  por  .  .  .  Santa  Cruz  contra  Sebastian 
Caboto — Sf'C'via,  1532,  is  described  as  No.  12. 

SANTAREM  (Manuel  Francisco  i  .•:  Barros  e  Sousa) 
Atlas  compose  de  mappemondes,  ue  portulans  et  de  cartes 
hydrographiques  et  historiques  depuis  le  vi*  jusqu'au 
xvii*  siecle,  pour  la  plupart  in^dites,  devant  servir  de  preuves 
a  I'histoire  de  la  cosmographie  et  de  la  cartographic  pen- 
dant le  moyen  age  et  a  celle  des  progres  de  la  g^og  phie 
.  .  .  recueilHes  et  gravdes  sous  la  diredlion  du  Vuomte 
de  Santarem.  Public  sous  les  auspices  du  gouvernement 
portugais — Paris^  mdcccxlix  [1842-1853].  (208) 

Imperial  folio.     2  T  +  5  11  +  plates. 

There  is  a  careful  collation  of  this  work,  which  contains  admirable 
facsimiles  of  the  more  impor\  ant  maps  that  show  the  cartographical 
history  of  the  Cabot  discoveries,  in  Sabin,  DiSlionary  of  Books  re- 
lating to  America, — Nenxj  York,  1889,  xviii.  488-497. 

SANUTO  (Livio)     Geografia  di  M.  Livio  Sanvto  distinta 

in  xii  libri.     Ne  quali,  oltra  I'esplicatione  di  molti  luoghi 

di  Tolomeo,  e  della  Bussola,  e  dell'  Aguglia,  si  dichiarano 

.  .  .  dell'  Africa. — Finegia.^  m.d.lxxxviii.  (209) 

Folio.     T  +  23  11  -t- 11  1-146  -H  12  maps. 

The  Cabot  voyage  described  in  the  preface  to  Kamusio,  No. 
196,  is  apparently  referred  to  in  pt.  i.,  lib.  ii.,  fol.  17.  The  state- 
ment from  which,  according  to  Harrisse,  Cabot,  289-291,  and 
465,  has  been  derived  the  claim  that  Sebastian  discovered  the  de- 
clination and  variation  of  the  magnetic  needle,  which  he  described 
in  the  presence  of  Edward  VI.  of  England,  is  in  lib.  i.,  fol.  2.  For 
the  reference  to  a  map  drawn  by  Cabot  in  London,  see  No.  47. 

Compare  HaRRISSe's  account  of  this  book  with  the  description 
in  Stevlns,  Bibliotheca  Geographica, — London,  1872,  i.  282-283  j 
reprinied  in  part  in  Sabin,  DiSlionary  of  Books  relating  to  America, 
xviii.  504-505. 

SANUTO  (Marino)  I  diarii  di  Marino  Sanuto  publicato 
per  cura  di  Federico  Stefani  [Guglielmo  Berchet,  Nicolo 
Barozzi,  Marco  Allegri] — Fenezia^  mdccclxxix  [-1898]. 

(210) 


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95 


Folio.     51  volumes.     It  is  expelled  that  six  additional  volumes 
will  complete  the  work,  covering  the  years  1496-1538. 
See  notes  under  PAsquALiGO,  No.  183. 

SCOTT   (Edward). 

The  "  Cabot  Roll "  discovered  and  translated  by  Mr.  Scott,  is 
described  under  Kemys,  No.  152. 

SONCINO   (Raimondo  di). 
See  Raimondo,  No.  190. 

SORANZO   (GiACOMo). 

A  dispatch  from  the  Venetian  ambassador  in  England,  date!  17 
August,  1551,  in  which  he  advised  the  Council  of:  Ten  at  Venice 
in  regard  to  Cabot — del  fedclissimo  nostro  Sebastiano  Gaboto — is 
mentioned  in  the  reply  of  the  Ten,  described  under  Venice,  No. 
228.  (211) 

STOW  (John)  The  Chronicles  of  Fngland,  from  Brute 
vnto  this  present  yeare  of  Christ.  1580.  Colledled  by 
lohn  Stow  Citizen  of  London — London.  (2 1 2) 

4to.     T  +  15  11  +  pp  1-1Z23.     Pagination  irregular. 

New  editions,  revised  to  date,  were  reprinted  in  1592,  pp.  1305  ; 
1605;  1615,  with  continuation  by  Edmond  Howes,  pp.  988; 
1631  (1632),  pp.  1087. 

Stow's  Summary  of  English  Chronicle  was  printet"  in  1 565,  1567, 
i573>  iS7S>  158"',  i59o»  1598,  and  1604:  the  Abridgement  or 
Summarie  of  the  English  Chronicle,  \n  1607,  161 1,  and  1618.  Ac- 
cording to  the  British  Museum  Catalogue,  the  1 561  and  other  editions 
of  the  Breviat  Chronicle  are  not  supposed  to  have  been  prepared  by 
Stow.  The  editions  of  these  Summaries  printed  before  1580  do  not 
contain  any  reference  to  the  Cabots. 

Stow  used  the  Fabyan  Chronicon,  No,  105,  for  his  account  of 
Sebastian  Gabato,  adding  to  the  information  therein  the  statement 
that  the  three  or  four  "  smal  shippes  were  fraught  with  slight  and 
grosse  wares  as  course  cloth,  Caps,  Laces,  points  and  such  other," 
p.  872,  1580  edition.  Stow  also  refers  to  Fabyan  for  the  statement, 
p.  875,  that  in  18  H.  VII.,  or  1502,  "were  brought  vnto  the  kyng 
three  men  taken  in  the  new  founde  Hands,  by  Sebastian  Gabato, 
before  named  in  anno  1468  .  .  .  clothed  in  Beastes  skinnes,  and 
eate  raw  Flesh,  but  spake  such  a  language  as  no  man  could  vnder- 
stand  them,  of  the  which  three  men,  two  of  them  were  scene  in  the 
Kings  Court  at  Westminster  two  yeares  after,  clothed,  like 
Englishmen,  and  could  not  be  discerned  fron-  Englishmen." 
Hakluyt,  in  the  heading  to  his  quotation  of  this  statemeut,  in 
1 582,  dated  it  1 7  H.  VII.,  i.e.,  22  August,  1 50 1 — 3 1  August,  1 502. 
In  1589  he  changed  this  to  14  H.  VII.     Harrisse,  Ca/>o/,  142-14.S, 


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96  Cabot  JSibliograpbi? 

shows  that  this  importation  of  natives  was  probably  made  by  the 
Bristol-Portuguese  expedition  of  150a  ;  and  that  Stow  or  Fabyan 
doubtless  thoughtlessly  inserted  Cabot's  name. 

Sebastian  Cabotte  is  mentioned  in  conneflion  with  the  expedition 
to  Muscovia  in  1552,  on  p.  1057. 

In  the  edition  of  1631,  p.  480,  the  Cabot  voyage  of  discovery  is 
dated,  by  a  misprint,  similar  to  that  in  the  passage  quoted  above, 
1489. 

STRACHEY  (William)  The  first  Booke  of  the  historie 
ef  Trauaile  into  Virginia  Britania  expressing  the  Cosmo- 
g.-aphie  &  comodities  of  the  country,  togither  with  the 
manners  and  customes  of  the  People  :  gathered  &  ob- 
serued  aswell  by  those  who  went  first  thither  as  collefted 
by  William  Strachey,  Gent.  (21 3) 

Manuscripts,  in  the  British  Museum,  London,  Sloane  ColleSiion, 
No.  1622;  in  the  Bodleian  Library  at  Oxford,  AshmoUan  Manu- 
scripts, No.  1754. 

Printed  by  the  Hakluyt  Society  : 

The  historie  of  travaile  .  .  .  now  first  edited  .  .  .  by  R.  H. 
Major — London  m.dccc.xlix.  (^h) 

8vo.     2  T  +  2  11  +  pp  i-xxxvi  +  1-203  +  map  +  6  plates. 

The  account  of  Cabot,  on  pp,  6-7,  1849  edition,  gives  the  inter- 
esting, although  unsupported,  information  that :  "  King  Henry 
7.  gave  his  letters  pattentes  A"  1495.  vnto  John  Cabot,  a  Vene- 
tian (indenized  his  Subjeft,  &  dwelling  w'Wn  the  Black  friers)"  .  .  . 

TAISNIER  (Johannes). 

The  title  of  Taisnier's  Opuscvlvm de  natvra  Magnetis, — Colonite, 
1 562,  to  the  translation  of  which  Eden  added  some  curious  informa- 
tion regarding  Sebastian  Cabot's  scientific  theories,  is  quoted  as 
No.  98. 

THEVET  (Andre)  Le  grand  Insulaire  et  Pilotage  d'Andre 
Theuet  Angoumoisin  Cosmographe  du  Roy.  (^^^S) 

Manuscript  in  thi^  Bibliotheque  Nationale  at  Paris,  fonds  fran(ais, 
No.  iS,4-S2- 

Written  between  1545  and  1558  ;  see  Harrisse,j'-  et  S.  Cabot, 
343-344>  Cabot,  466-467. 

The  northern  limit  of  the  Venetian  voyage  under  Henry  VH.  of 
England  is  given  as  67°  in  vol.  i.,  fol.  143. 

THEVET  (Andre)  Les  Singvlari-tez  de  la  Fran-ce 
antar6liqve,av-trement  nommde  Amerique :  &  de  plusieurs 


Cabot  JBiblioorapb^ 


97 


Terres  &  Isles  de-couuertes  de  nostre  temps.     Par    F. 
Andre  Theuet — Paris^  1558.  (216) 

4to.     T  +  7  11 +  11  1-166  +  2  11. 

Some  copies  appear  to  have  been  issued  with  the  title  dated  1557. 

Reprinted  in  Antiverp  the  same  year  :  and  again,  with  notes  by 
Paul  Gaffarel, — Paris,  1878.  Translated  into  Italian, — Venice, 
1561;  reissued  with  a  new  title  and  preface  in  1584:  and  into 
English, — London,  1568. 

The  account  of  Sebastian  Babate  Anglois,  on  fol.  148,  or  cap. 
74,  may  have  been  derived  from  the  same  sources  as  Gomara's 
Cabot  narrative,  but  can  hardly  have  been  a  mere  perversion  or  re- 
writing of  that  account.  Thevet  is  the  authority  for  the  report 
that  Cabot  settled  300  men  on  the  coast  of  the  new  world,  most  of 
whom  died  of  cold,  in  July  :  il  se  proposoit  aller  au  Peru  & 
Amerique,  pour  peupler  .  .  .  &  dresser  la  vnenouuelle  Angleterre. 
Ce  qu'il  n'executa :  vray  est  qu'il  mist  bicn  trois  cens  hommes  en 
terre,  du  coste  d'Irlande  au  Nort,  ou  le  froid  fist  mourir  presque 
toute  sa  compagnie,  encores  que  ce  fust  au  moys  de  luillet. 

The  advocates  of  an  Icelandic  voyage  by  Cabot  have  apparently 
not  yet  noticed  the  very  reasonable  probability  that  Ireland  in  this 
passage  is  plainly  a  misprint  for  Iceland. 

Harrisse,  J.  et  S.  Cabot,  270,  places  this  expedition  at  about 
1503. 

THEVET  (Andre)  Lacosmogra-phie  vniverselled'Andre 
Thevet  cosmo-graphe  dv  roy.  illustree  de  diverses  figvres 
des  choses  plvs  remarqvables  veves  par  I'Auteur,  &  incog- 
neues  de  noz  Anciens  &  Modernes — Paris  i^JS       (^^7) 

Folio.  2  volumes.  T  +  29  11  +  H  1-467  +  4  :  T  +  11  469- 
936  +  903-1025  -f-  17  +  4  maps. 

The  account  of  a  sear  h  for  a  north-west  passage  to  the  Pacific, 
by  a  pilot  of  King  Henry  of  England,  on  1.  1022,  may  refer  to 
Cabot.  If  so,  the  narrulive  of  his  adventures  after  his  failure  to 
get  north  of  59"  on  account  of  the  ice,  contains  many  details  which 
the  biographers  of  Sebastian  have  neglefted  to  utilize  and  interpret. 
Unluckily,  they  do  not  agree  with  any  of  the  better  known  faits  of 
his  explorations. 

THORNE  (Robert)  This  is  the  forme  of  a  Mappe  sent 
1527.  from  Siuill  in  Spayne  by  maister  Robert  Thome 
marchaunt,  to  Dodtor  Ley  Embassadour  for  king  Henry 
the  8.  to  Charles  the  Emperour,  ...  (218) 

Woodcut  map,  44.25x22.25  cmm.,  or  17x81  inches.  Pub- 
lished with  Hakluyt,  Di'vers  rojages,No.  125, — London,  1582. 

Along  the  Labrador  coast  is  the  legend  :  Terra  hec  ab  Angiis 
primu  fuit  inuenta.     This  deiives  importance  in  the  discussion  of 

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the  Cabot  landfalls,  from  the  faft  that,  in  Spain  in  15*7,  Sebastian 
Cabot  may  have  oeen  the  authority  for  the  position  in  which  it 
was  placed  on  the  map. 

An  accompanying  description  of  the  significant  features  on  the 
map  was  printed  by  Hakluyt  with  the  heading  : 

THORNE  (Robert)  The  booke  made  by  the  right  wor- 
shipful M.  Robert  Thorne  in  the  yeere  1527.  in  Siuil,  to 
Doftour  Ley,  Lord  ambassadour  for  king  Henry  the 
eight,  to  Charles  the  Emperour,  being  an  information  of 
the  parts  of  the  world,  discouered  by  him  and  the  king  of 
Portingal :  and  also  of  the  way  to  the  Moluccaes  by  the 
North.  (219) 

Printed  in  Hakluyt,  Foyages,  No.  129, — London,  1598,  i,  214- 
220. 

This  narrative  contains  the  interesting  reference  to  "  A  voyage 
of  discouery  by  the  Pole.  M.  Thorne  and  M.  (Hugh)  Eliot  dis- 
couerers  of  New  found  land."  The  language  does  not  make  it 
entirely  clear  whether  this  voyage  was  the  same  as  that  on  which 
"if  the  mariners  would  then  haue  bene  ruled,  and  followed  their 
Pilots  minde,  the  lands  of  the  West  Indies  (from  whence  all  the 
gold  commeth)  had  bene  ours."  This  latter  voyage  is  supposed  to 
have  been  undertaken  during  the  first  yearr  of  the  sixteenth  century. 
It  is  not  unlikely  that  Thorne  and  Eliot  were  among  the  Bristol 
merchants  who  supported  Cabot  in  his  enterprises  during  the  pre- 
ceding decade.     See  the  IntroduSiion,  pp.  xii  and  xl. 

This  narrative  also  contains  the  passage  which  was  again  quoted 
by  Hakluyt,  with  the  heading  : 

THORNE  (Robert)  A  report  of  a  voyage  of  two 
Englishmen  in  the  company  of  Sebastian  Cabota,  intented 
for  the  Malucos  by  the  Streights  of  Magellan,  but  per- 
fourmed  onely  to  the  riuer  of  Plate  in  April  1527.  Taken 
out  of  the  information  of  M.  Robert  Thorne  to  Do6lor 
Ley  .  .  .  (220) 

In  HhKijVYr,  Voyages,  No.  131, — London,  1600,  iii.  7265  Gold- 
smid  edition,  XV.  (iii.),  306-314. 

"  In  a  flote  of  three  ships  and  a  carauell  that  went  from  this  citie 
of  Siuil  armed  by  the  merchants  of  it,  which  departed  in  Aprill  last 
past,  I  and  my  partner  haue  one  thousand  foure  hundred  duckets 
.  .  .  princ'pally  for  that  two  Englishmen,  friendes  of  mine,  which 
are  somewhat  learned  in  Cosmographie,  should  goe  ...  to  bring 
me  certaine  relation  of  the  situation  of  the  countrey,  and  to  be 
expert  in  the  nauigation  of  those  seas." 

It  is  possible  that  the  "ruttier  which  declareth  the  situation  of 
the  coast  of  Brasil  from  the  Isle  of  Santa  Catelina  vnto  the  mouth  of 


Cabot  JStbliodrapbi? 


99 


the  riuer  of  Plata,  and  all  along  vp  within  the  sayd  riuer,  and  what 
armes  and  mouthes  it  hath  to  enter  into  it,  as  farre  as  it  is  nauigable 
with  small  barks,"  which  is  printed  at  the  end  of  the  extrafl 
from  Thome,  pp.  728-730,  may  be  the  report  rendered  by  these  two 
Englishmen  who  were  sent  to  find  out  about  any  possible  oppor- 
tunities for  approaching  the  Spice  Islands  from  England  by  the 
north-west. 


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THORNE  (Robert)  A  declaration  of  the  Indies  and 
lands  discouered,  and  subdued  vnto  the  Emperour,  and  the 
king  of  Portingal :  And  also  of  other  partes  of  the  Indies 
and  rich  countries  to  be  discouered,  which  the  worshipfull 
M.  Robert  Thorne  merchant  of  London  (who  dwelt  long 
in  the  citie  of  Siuil  in  Spaine)  exhorted  king  Henrie  the 
eight  to  take  in  hand.  (221) 

In  Hakluyt,  Voyages,  No.  129, — London,  1598,  i.  212-214. 

The  date  of  this  petition,  urging  greater  adtivity  in  extending 
English  discovery,  is  not  known.  A  marginal  note,  doubtless  sup- 
plied by  Hakluyt,  explains  the  statement  that  his  Majesty  had 
"  already  taken  it  in  hand  "  by  referring  to  the  voyage  "  by  Sebastian 
Cabot  and  sir  Thomas  Pert  in  the  eight  yere  of  his  reigne,"  This 
is  presumably  derived  from  the  statement  which  is  discussed  in  the 
notes  to  Eden,  No,  95,  and  in  the  IntroduSlion,  p.  xliv. 

TOBY  (Maurice)  A  JSrief  Chronicle,  conteyninge  the 
accompte  of  the  Reignes  of  all  the  Kings  in  the  R  ealme  of 
Englande,  from  the  entering  of  Brutus  untill  thij  present 
yeere,  with  all  the  notable  adb  done  by  the  dy  vers  of  them, 
and  wherein  is  also  conteyned  the  names  of  all  the  Mayors, 
Stewardes,  BaylifFes,  and  SherifFes,  of  the  laudable  town  of 
Bristowe,  .  .  .  from  the  first  yeere  of  King  Henry  y* 
3'^'*,  A.D.  12 1 7,  untill  the  present  yeere,  1565.  (222) 

A  manuscript,  "  from  Sir  Francis  Fust's  Library,"  destroyed  by 
fire  while  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Kerslake,  at  Bristol,  England, 
14  February,  i860.  Between  1845  and  1849,  a  copy  was  taken  of 
all  the  entries  in  this  chronicle  which  were  not  to  be  found  in  the 
histories  of  Bristol  by  Barrett,  No.  252,  or  Sever,  No.  522. 
This  transcript  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  William  George,  of 
Bristol. 

An  extraft,  first  printed  in  the  Encyclopiedia  Britannica,  ninth 
edition, — Edinburgh,  1875,  etc.,  iv.  350,  states  under  the  year  1496 
that  ♦'  the  land  of  America  was  found  by  the  merchants  of  Bristow 
in  a  shippe  of  Bristowe,  called  the  Mathew  .  .  .  departed  the  second 
day  of  May,  and  came  home  again  the  6""  of  August  next  follow- 
ing,"    See  notes  under  Harrisse,  Nos.  388-390,  Prowse,  No, 


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loo  Cabot  3BibliOGrapbs 

494,  and  We  are,  No.  561,  for  the  controversy  over  the  trust- 
worthiness of  these  details. 

V  ANNES  (Peter)  [Dispatch  to  the  English  Privy  Council 
— Venice,  12  September,  155 1.  (223) 

Printed  in  Wm.  B.  Turnbull,  Calendar  0/ State  Papers,  Foreign 
Series,  EJnuarJ  l^I.,  1547-1553, — London,  1861,  171-172. 

This  letter  from  the  English  ambassador  at  Venice  shows  clearly 
that,  whatever  ulterior  designs  may  have  been  hidden  under  this 
cloak,  Cabot  unquestionably  had  revived  certain  definite  and 
plausible  claims  to  property  or  rights  of  some  sort  in  Venice.  The 
ambassador  reports  that  the  matter,  which  was  about  fifty  years 
old,  had  been  entrusted  to  one  of  the  secretaries  of  the  Council  oi 
Ten,  Baptista  Ramusio, — see  notes,  No.  196" — "  whom  Cabot  put 
in  trust  ...  to  ensearch  with  diligence  any  way  and  knowledge 
possible  that  may  stand  to  the  said  Sebastian  s  profit  and  obtaining 
of  right."  See  notes  under  Venice,  Nos.  225-228,  and  the  Intro- 
duSlion,  pp.  xxxiii  and  xlviii. 

VAZQUEZ  (Catalina). 
VAZQUEZ  (Francisco). 

The  depositions  of  the  several  parties  to  the  lawsuits  which 
followed  the  return  of  Cabot  from  his  La  Plata  expedition  are  de- 
scribed under  Nos.  10-12  and  23-37. 

VENICE  [Letters  of  Naturalization  granted  by  the  Senate 
of  Venice  to  John  Cabot  in  1476.  (224) 

The  order  to  record  these  privileges  of  Venetian  citizenship, 
which  was  passed  by  the  Senate  28  March,  1476,  is  preserved  in  the 
State  Archives  at  Venice,  SenatoTerra,  1473-1477,  vii.  109. 

Printed  by  Romanin,  No.  200, — Venice,  1858,  iv.  453:  also  in 
Harrisse,  Cabot,  387,  where  there  is  an  explanation  that  Rawdon 
Brown's  translation  in  Calendar  {Fenice),  i.  453,  reading  "citizen- 
ship within  and  without  .  .  .  for  a  residence  of  fifteen  years " 
really  means  "  in  consideration  for  having  resided  fifteen  years  "  in 
the  republic. 

The  terms  and  conditions  are  in  BuLLO,  No.  290, — Chioggia, 
1880,  pp.  59-60,  from  the  Latin  text  recorded  in  the  State  Archives 
at  Venice,  Libro  Fri'vilegi,  ii.  53  :  translated  by  Harrisse,  Cabot, 
387.389. 

The  exafl  significance  of  this  grant,  and  of  the  decrees  in  accord- 
ance with  which  it  was  issued,  as  evidence  proving  that  Cabot  was 
not  a  V  netian  by  birth,  are  discussed  with  elaborate  detail  by 
Harris  d,  Cabot,  1-9. 

VENICE  [Dispatch  from  the  Council  of  Ten  to  Gasparo 
Contarini — f^enice,  27  September,  1^22.  (225) 


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Original  copy  in  the  State  Archives  at  Venice,  Capi  M  Consijjio 
dei  X,  Lett  en  Sottoscritte,  FUza  N.  5,  1522. 

Printedby  BuLLO,  No.  290,  pp.  61-62  Translated  in  Raw  don 
Brown,  Calendar  {Venice),  iii.  557. 

This  letter  intormed  the  Venetian  nbassador  at  the  Spanish 
court  that  a  certain  Marin  de  BucignoU- — see  No.  158 — hac'  pre- 
sented himself  to  the  head  of  the  Ten  with  credentials  authorizing 
him  to  make  certain  propositions,  not  specified,  on  behalf  of  Sebas- 
tian Cabot,  who  said  that  he  b«'longed  to  Venice.  The  ambassador 
is  instrufted  to  interview  Cabot  and  induce  him  to  visit  Venice  in 
person.     For  the  reply  ot  Contarini,  see  No.  76. 

An  order  authorizing  the  Treasurer  of  the  Council  to  pay  twenty 
ducats  to  Master  Hieronimo  de  Marin,  "  pro  bona  causa,"  was 
passed  by  the  Ten  on  the  same  date  as  that  of  the  letter  to  Conta- 
rini, and  is  usually  printed  with  it.  (226) 

VENICE     [Dispatch  from  the  Council  of  Ten  to  Contarini 
— f^enice^  28  April,  1523.  (227) 

Manuscript  in  the  Marciana  Library  at  Venice,  CI.  ^11.,  Cod. 
Mix.,  Cart,  (according  to  Harrisse). 

Printed  in  Bullo,  No.  290,  pp.  61-62.  Translated  in  Brown, 
Calendar  (f^enice),  iii.  669. 

This  letter,  in  reply  to  Contarini's,  Nos.  76  and  77,  states 
that  the  letter  which  Cabot  asked  to  have  sent  to  him,  urging  him 
to  visit  Venice,  had  been  dispatched,  signed  with  the  name  of 
HiERONYMO  DE  Marino — No.  158 — although  the  latter  was  no 
longer  to  be  found  in  Venice.  See  the  Introduilion,  pp.  xxi  and 
xlviii. 

VENICE     [Dispatch  from  the  Council  of  Ten  to  Giacomo 
Soranzo — Fe^^ice^  T2  September,  1551.  (228) 

Manuscript  in  the  State  Archives  at  Venice,  Consiglio  dei  Died, 
Parte  Secrete,  Filza  N.  8,  i SS' -54- 

Printed  by  Bullo,  No.  290,  p.  70.  Translated  in  Brown, 
Calendar  {Venice),  v.  364. 

This  is  a  reply  to  a  dispatch  from  the  Venetian  ambassador  in 
England — see  Soranzo,  No.  211.  It  appears  that  Cabot  revived 
the  offer  of  his  services  to  Venice — see  references  under  Nos.  223 
and  227:  questa  sua  offerta  ne  t^  stata  gratissima,  .  .  .  quanto  alia 
richiesta  che  vi  e  stata  fata  da  quei  Signori  [the  Councillors  of 
Edward  VI.]  circa  li  crediti  che  pretende,  e  ricuperatione  de  beni, 
.  .  .  che  non  essendo  il  detto  Caboto  conosciuto  da  alcuno  de  qui, 
saria  neccessario  che  esso  medesimo  venisse  per  giustificare  la  sua 
persona  et  le  ragion  sue,  essendo  quelle  cose  di  che  si  parla  molto 
vecchie,  .  .  .  Con  questa  occasione  possa  dimandare  et  ottenere 
la  licentia  di  venire,  la  quale  vederete,  che  il  procuri  di  avere,  trans- 
ferendosi  di  qui  quanto  piu  presto  potra,  ne  restarete  pero  in  questo 


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mezo  di  sforzarvi  cli  intendere  da  lui  piu  avanti  que!  maf^gior  parti- 
colari  che  potrete  dir,  e  il  disegno  suo  di  questa  navigatione. 

The  extent  to  which  the  Englinh  government  participated  in 
Cabot's  ostensible  efforts  to  recover  his  Venetian  claims  is  shown  by 
the  dispatch  of  the  Rev.  Peter  Vannes,  of  the  same  date  as  the 
above,  No.  223. 

VERRAZANO   (Hieronymo  da). 

A  manuscript  map  of  the  world,  260  x  i^o  cmm.,  in  the  library 
of  the  Propaganda  at  Rome,  drawn  by  Verrazano,  confirms  the 
evidence  oi  Maggiolo,  No.  157,  relative  to  the  part  of  North 
America  first  visited  by  Cabot.  It  is  described  by  Harrisse, /)tJ- 
cm/ery,  575-577  ;  and  also  in  the  Re'vue  Critique,  Paris,  i  January, 
1876,  p.  22.  There  art  reduced  photolithographs  of  the  entire 
map  in  Brevoort,  f^errazano,—Ne'w  York,  1874;  Murphy, 
Ferrazano, — Nfiv  York,  1875:  the  American  portion  '\r  in  Desi- 
MONi,  Tavola  Parallda.  (219) 

WILLES  (Richard)  The  History  of  Trauayle  in  the 
West  and  East  Indies  .  .  .  With  a  discourse  of  the 
Northwest  pas-sage  .  .  .  Gathered  in  parte,  and  done  into 
Englyshe  by  Richarde  Eden.  Newly  set  in  order, 
augmented,    and  finished   by   Richarde   Willes — London 

1577-  (230) 

8vo.     T  -I-  9  11  -f  11  1-466  -f-  6. 

See  notes  under  Eden,  No.  96. 

The  most  important  addition  made  by  Willes  is  the  account : 
"  For.  M.  Cap.  Fvrby-shers  passage  by  the  northwest,"  in  which 
occurs  a  reference,  on  1.  232,10  "  our  countriman  Sebastian  Cabote, 
in  his  table,  the  which  my  good  Lorde  [the  Earl  of  Bedford]  hath 
at  Cheynies ; ''  and,  1.  233,  "  Cabota  ...  his  owne  discourse  of 
nauigation  you  mayreade  in  hiscarde  drawen  with  his  owne  hande, 
the  mouth  of  the  northwesterne  streift  lieth  nearethe  .318.  Meridian, 
betwixt  .61.  and  .64.  degrees  in  eleuation,  continuyng  the  same 
breadth  about  .10  degrees  west,  where  it  openeth  southerly  more 
and  more."     See  notes  under  Cabot,  No.  49. 

WOLFENBUTTEL. 

See  notes  under  Ribeiro,  No.  198,  for  the  man  usually  cited  as 
«'  Wolfenbuttel  B." 

WORTHINGTON    (William). 

The  close  relations  existing  between  Sebastian  Cabot  and  his  suc- 
cessor, Worthington.are  shown  in  the  notes  under  MaryTudor, 
Nos.  168-169,  and  under  Hakluyt,  No.  125. 


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(230) 


WRIGHT  (Edward). 

The  "  New  Map,"  which  may  have  been  drawn  by  WmuHT,  is 
described  under  Molineux,  No.  174. 

WYATT  (Thomas)  Note  of  remembrance  of  Sir  Thomas 
Wiat  to  Mr.  Philip  Hoby,  at  his  departing  out  of  Spain 
into  England — 1538.  (^30 

Manuscript  in  the  British  Museum,  London,  Add.  MSS.  5,498, 
fol.  8. 

Printed  in  Gairdner,  Letters  and  Papers,  Henry  f^IIL, — London, 
1893,  xiii.,  pt.  ii.  (1538),  4>>-4-iS- 

Hoby  was  reminded  "to  remember  Sebastian  Cabote.  He  hath 
here  but  300  ducats  a  year,  and  he  is  desirous,  if  he  might  not 
serve  the  king,  at  least  to  see  him,  as  his  old  master."  See  note 
under  Chapuys,  No.  65. 

ZIEGLER  (Jacobus)  Qvae  intvs  con  tinentvr.  Syria 
.  .  .  Aegyptvs  .  .  .  Schondia.traditaabaudtoribus,  qui  in 
eius  o-peris  prologo  memorantur.  Holmix  .  .  .  Regionvm 
superiorum,  singulae  tabulze  Geogra  phicae — Argentorati 
M.D.xxxii.  (232) 

Small  folio.     T  +  11  ii-cviii  +  ciii-cx  +  8  maps  +  2  11  errata. 
Reissued  in  1536,  with  a  new  title  and  the  addition  of  Terrae 
Sanftae  and  an  index. 

In  this  treatise  on  the  less  known  portions  of  the  world,  Schondia 
is  the  name  applied  to  the  northern  regions.  This  chapter  was 
reprinted    in    Krantzius,   Regnorum   Aquilonarium, — Franckfort, 

1583,473-497- 

On  the  back  of  1.  xcii,  mention  is  made,  on  the  authority  oi  Peter 
Martyr,  of  a  voyage  into  the  icy  seas  of  the  far  north,  by  "  An- 
toninum  quendam  Cabotum  soluentem  a  Britannia."  The  char- 
after  of  the  entire  passage  seems  to  confirm  the  natural  inference 
from  minor  errors,  that  the  reference  was  made  from  memory. 


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CABOTIANA. 

A  LIST  OF  BOOKS  AND  OTHER  WRITINGS, 

printed  between  160o  and  i9oo,  which  refer  to 

John  and  Sebastian  Cabot,  or  which  are  of 

use  in  studying  the  controversies  which 

are  associated   with  their   names. 

The  more  useful  bibliographical  works  are  mentioned  under  the 

numbers  8,  256,  271,  290,  294,  302,  306, 

31 9>  3275  329>  343%  354,358,  381, 

383^  387,421, 503, ^"^525. 

AMAT  DI   S.   FILIPPO   (Pietro). 

See  FuMAGELLi,  No.  358. 

THE  AMERICAN  NEPOS  :  a  colleaion  of  the  lives 
of  the  most  remarkable  and  the  most  emi-nent  men,  who 
have  contributed  to  the  discovery,  the  settlement,  and  the 
independence  of  America — Baltimore  1805.  (^35) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  iii-xii  +  13-408. 

Second  edition, — Baltimore  181 1. 

There  is  a  very  creditable  account  of  the  Cabots  on  pp.  38-4.3. 

ANSPACH  (Lewis  Amadeus)  A  history  of  the  Island 
of  Newfoundland  :  containing  a  description  of  the  island, 
the  banks,  the  fisheries,  and  trade  of  Newfoundland,  and 
the  coast  of  Labrador,  by  the  Rev.  Lewis  Amadeus 
Anspach — London  18 19.  (236) 

8vo,     T  +PP  iii-xxviii  ■\-  512  +2  maps. 

Important  for  the  statement,  on  p.  25,  that  John  Cabot,  to 
whom  the  discovery  is  credited,  had  been  employed  in  "  a  successful 
negotiation  ...  in  the  year  1495,  with  the  court  of  Denmark,  re- 


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specting  some  interruptions  which  the  merchants  of  Bristol  had 
suffered  in  their  trade  to  Iceland,"  and  that  this  had  been  the 
means  of  introducing  him  to  Henry  VII.  No  authority  is  given 
for  this  extremely  interesting,  and  in  itself  not  improbable,  informa- 
tion; and  this  omission  is  the  more  noticeable  because  the  reverend 
author  usually  suggests  the  authorities  from  which  he  derived  the 
statements  in  his  text.  Persistent  efforts,  notably  by  Mr.  Harrisse, 
have  failed  to  bring  to  light  any  confirmatory  fafts.  Prowse,  No. 
491,  p.  25,  calls  attention  to  the  Anglo-Danish  treaty  of  1489-90, 
which  led  to  further  negotiations  in  1492. 

APPLETON  (John)  The  Portrait  of  Sebastian  Cabot 
belonging  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.      (237, 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  foi 
January,  1865, — Boston,  1866,  viii.  91-96.     Also  issued  separately. 

This  is  a  synopsis  and  adaptation  of  fafts  and  arguments  pub- 
lished by  William  H.  Black  and  Augustus  W.  Franks  in 
Arc/iaologia, — London,  1863,  xxxix.  i-i8,  272-276,  which  prove 
that  Holbein  could  not  have  painted  Cabot's  portrait.  See  notes 
to  No.  61. 

ASHER  (George  Michael)  Henry  Hudson  the  navi- 
gator. The  original  docUiHents  in  which  his  career  is  re- 
corded collefted,  partly  translated,  and  annotated,  with  an 
introduction,  by  G.  M.  Asher. — London^  Hakluyt  Society, 
M.DCCC.LX.  (23^) 

8vo.     2  T  +  4  11  +  pp  ccxix  -f-  292  +  2  maps. 

There  is  an  account  of  the  indebtedness  of  the  Cabots  to  the 
geographical  knowledge  of  the  preceding  century,  and  of  their 
influence  upon  that  of  the  succeeding  years,  on  pp.  Ixii-lxxvii.  It  is 
suggested  that  if  Cabot  in  1498  went  in  search  of  a  north-west 
passage,  this  implies  that  he  then  realized,  before  any  of  his  con- 
temporaries, the  existence  of  a  continent  through  which  a  passage 
to  Cathay  was  desired.  These  views  are  modified,  as  a  result  of 
further  examination  of  the  Cabot  sources,  on  pp.  ccxvi-cc  viii. 
Some  suggestive  ideas  on  the  editions  of  the  Cabot  map  are  on  pp. 
260-262. 

A  "  memoir  on  the  north-western  voyages  of  the  Cabots  "  is 
announced  on  p.  ccxvi,  as  "  now  preparing  for  the  press."  It  was 
apparently  never  published.  (*39) 

AVEZAC-MACAYA  (Marie  Armand  Pascal  d') 
Considerations  gcographiqucs  sur  I'histoire  du  Bresii, 
examen  critique  d'une  nouvelie  histoire  .  .  .  par  M. 
Frangois-Adolphe  de  Varnhagen,  par  M.  d'Avezac.  (240) 


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»o6  Cabot  BiblioQrapbs 

In  the  Bulletin  of  the  Societe  de  Geographic, — Paris,  August- 
September,  1857,  4  ser,,  xiv.  89-356  +  2  maps.  Also  issued 
separately. 

Note  K,  pp.  266-278,  discusses  the  South  Americn  voyages 
attributed  to  Sebastian  Cabot.  This  matter  was  not  mentioned  by 
M.  Varnhagen  in  his  reply: 

Examen  de  quelques  points  de  I'histoire  geographique  du  Bresil 
[comprenant  des  eclaircissements  nouveaux  .  .  .  ou  analyse 
critique  du  rapport  de  M.  d'Avezac].  (*4i) 

In  the  Bulletin  of  the  Societe  de  Geographic, — Paris,  March- 
April,  1858,  4.  ser.,  XV.  14.5-171,  213-252.  Also  issued  separately 
with  a  map. 

AVEZAC-MACAYA  (Marie  Armand  Pascal  d') 
Bref  r^cit  et  succindte  narration  de  la  navigation  faite  en 
MDXXXV  et  MDXXXVi  par  le  capitaine  Jacques  Cartier 
.  .  .  preccd(ie  d'une  breve  et  succinate  introdudtion  his- 
torique  par  M.  d'Avezac. — Paris^  Tross,  1863.         (242) 

8vo.     2  T  -H  11  xvj  -I-  68. 

The  account  of  the  Cabot  voyages  of  1494.,  1497,  1498,  and 
1517,  on  11.  v-vj,  is  reprinted  in  Malte-Brun,  Annates  des 
f^oy ages, —  Paris,  July,  1864,  6  ser.,  x.,  iii.  jj-ji). 

AVEZAC-MACAYA  (Marie  Armand  Pascal  d') 
Les  navigations  Terre-neuviennes  de  Jean  et  S6bastien 
Cabot.  Lettre  au  R^v^rend  Leonard  Woods  .  .  .  par  M. 
d'Avezac.  (243) 

In  the  Bulletin  of  the  Societe  de  Geographic, — Paris,  September, 
1869,  5  ser.,  xviii.  300-316.  Also  issued  separately.  Read  before 
the  Society  on  June  18,  and  also  presented  to  the  Cinq  Academies 
de  rinstitut  de  France,  6  06lober,  1869. 

This  letter  was  prepared  at  the  request  of  the  Maine  His- 
torical Society.  It  was  translated  by  Dr.  Woods  and  printed  as 
an  appendix  to  Kohl,  Disco'very,  No.  429, — Portland,  1869,  502- 
514. 

The  letter  contains  the  ablest  presentation  of  the  arguments  which 
seem  to  prove  that  the  Cabots  made  a  series  of  English  voyages 
between  149 1  and  151 7.  M.  d'Avezac  believed  that  these  voyages 
really  began  in  1480,  and  that  John  Cabot  was  the  magis  navis 
scientificus  marinarius  totius  Angliae,  who  sailed  from  Bristol  in 
that  year  in  the  sen'ice  of  the  merchant  prince  John  Jay.  Compare 
Major,  No.  446. 

The  Cabot  portrait  described  as  No.  20  was  reported  by  M. 
d'Avezac  in  the  Bulletin  of  the  Societe  de  Geographic, — Paris, 
May,  1869,  5  ser.,  xvii.  406-7.  (244) 

An   important   review  of  NiCHOLLS,  No.  467,  in  the   Re'uue 


(*4i) 
March- 


Cabot  IBibliograpbi^ 


107 


Critique  cThistoire  et  de  litterature, — Paris,  23  April,  1870,  v.  264- 
269,  is  supposed  to  have  been  written  by  M.  d'Avezac.  (*4S) 

BACON  (Francis)  The  Historic  of  the  raigne  of  King 
Henry  the  Seuenth.  Written  By  the  Right  Honourable, 
Francis,  Lord  Verulam,  Viscount  St.  Alban. — London 
1622.  (246) 

Folio.     Port.  +  T  +  I  1  +  pp  24.8. 

Reprinted  with  the  addition  of  a  Table,  in  1629.  The  British 
Museum  contains  editions  dated  1641,  1676,  1706,  17 19,  1786, 
1870,  1875,  1878.  The  Latin  translation,  "  Cura  &Fide  Guilielmi 
Rawiey,"  was  printed  in  1638,  in  164.2  (LugJ.  Batwv.)  and  1647. 
A  French  version  was  printed  at  Paris  in  1627  and  1693,  and  at 
Bruges  in  1724. 

The  History  of  Henry  FII.  is  contained  in  the  colle6lions  of  Lord 
Bacon's  Works,of  which  there  were  three  editions  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  five  in  the  eighteenth  century,  and  at  least  twelve  since 
1800.  The  more  recent  editions  usually  contain  notes  in  which 
the  account  of  Cabot  is  correfted  and  expanded. 

The  account  of  "  Sebastian  Gabato  a  Venetian  "  is  given  at  thf^ 
end  of  14  Hen.  VIL,  pp.  187-189  of  the  first  edition.  It  agrees 
with  that  given  by  Stow,  No.  212,  and  in  Fabvan,  No.  105. 

BAKER  (George  Sherston)  John  Cabot  and  the  dis- 
covery of  Newfoundland.  (247) 

In  the  Nautical  Magazine, — London,  June,  1897,  Ixvi.  534-543. 
Reprinted  in  the  Scientific  American  Supplement, — Neiv  York,  16 
Oftober,  1897,  xliv..  No.  1137,  pp.  18180-18182. 

A  composition  of  such  extracts  from  the  sources  as  would  make 
a  readable  article. 

BANCROFT  (George)  A  history  of  the  United  States, 
from  the  discovery  of  the  American  continent  to  the 
present  time.     By  George  Bancroft — Boston  1834.    (248) 

8vo.     2  T  -f-  pp  v-xii  +  508. 

Eight  other  volumes  appeared  between  1837  and  1866.  All  have 
been  reprinted  several  times,,  with  very  considerable  alterations. 
The  important  editions  are  the  "Centennial,"  1876;  and  "the 
Author's  latest  revision," — Ne'w  York,  Appleton,  1883. 

The  account  of  the  Cabot  voyages  is  on  pp.  8-15,  1834  edition  j 
i.  9-12,  1883  edition.  Extrafts  are  reprinted  in  Earned,  History 
for  Ready  Reference,  i.  51. 

See  note  under  Hamersley,  No.  376. 

Mr.  Bancroft  prepared  a  careful  article  in  Appi.eton's  Nenxi 
American  Cyclopaedia,— Nenv  York,  1859,  'v-  185-187;  reprinted 
without  change  in  the  1873  edition,  iii.  529-531.     The  narrative 


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1 08  Cabot  JSibliodtapbi? 

from  his  History  was  supplemented  by  "  material  from  his  manu- 
script coUeftions,"  and  it  is  useful  as  a  test  of  what  could  be  kr  ^wn 
about  the  Cabots  in  1S59.  (2+9) 

BANKS   (Charles  E.). 

See  note  under  Gardener,  No.  361. 

BARKER  (W.  R.)  Biistol  in  the  days  of  the  Cabots. 
By  W.  R.  Barker.  One  of  the  Bristol  Delegates.       (250) 

In  the  Proceedings  ot  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada, — Ottaiva, 
1897,  clix-clxxvii  +  8  plates.     Also  issued  separately. 

On  p.  clxxi  is  the  statement  that  the  Matthew  sailed  in  a  year  of 
exceptional  scarcity. 

BARRERA  PE"  ZI  (Carlo)  Documenti  inediti  italo- 
ispani,  esistenti  nei  reali  Archivj  di  Milano,  raccolti  e  com- 
mentati — Pinerolo  1864.  (251) 

8vo.    T  +  pp  32. 

The  letter  of  Raxmondo,  No.  190,  which  was  printed  herein  for 
the  first  time,  justifies  a  somewhat  enthusiastic  account  of  the 
achievements  of  a  Venetian  citizen. 

BARRERA  PEZZI  (Carlo)  Di  Giovanni  Cabotto 
rivelatore  del  settentrionale  emisfero  d'America  con  docu- 
menti inediti  esistenti  nei  RR.  Archivj  di  Stato  di  Milano 
raccolti  da  Carlo  Barrera  Pezzi — Fenezia^  mdccllx.kxi. 

(251*) 
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BARRETT  (William)  The  history  and  antiquities  of 
the  city  of  Bristol,  compiled  from  Original  Records  and 
authentic  Manuscripts,  In  public  Offices  or  private  Hands ; 
By  William  Barrett. — Bristol  (252) 

4.to.     T  +  iii-xix  +  704.  -V  30  maps  and  plates. 
The    account    of    the    Cabots,    pp.    171- 174., 
Hakluyt. 


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BARROW  (John)  A  chronological  history  of  voyages 
into  the  ardtic  regions ;  undertaken  chiefly  for  the  purpose 
of  discovering  a  north-easc,  north-west,  or  polar  passage 
between  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  :  from  the  earliest  periods 
of  Scandinavian  navigation,  to  the  departure  of  the  recent 


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expeditions,  under  the  orders  of  Captains  Ross  and  Buchan 
.  .  .  By  John  Barrow — London^  Murray,  1818.        (253) 

8vo.     2  T  +  2  11  +  PP  379  +  4-8  +  map. 

The  cautious  manner  in  which  the  conflifting  nature  of  the 
statements  of  the  authoritative  writers  is  recognized  in  the  account 
of  the  Cabots,  32-37,  frankly  adapted  from  Hakluyt  and  Camp- 
bell, No.  295,  in  no  wise  merits  Biddle's  fascinating  comment : 
"  Invaluable  in  reference  to  our  present  task,  as  it  not  only 
embodies,  in  a  cheap  and  convenient  form,  all  the  mistakes  of  its 
predecessors,  but  generally  supplies  a  good  deal  of  curious  original 
error.'' — Memoir,  iio.  261,  p.  2sC. 

BAROZZI  (N1COL6). 

See  Sanuto,  Diarii,  No.  210. 

BAXTER    (James  Phinney)     John  Cabot  and  his  dis- 
coveries, by  Hon.  James  P.  Baxter.  (254J 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society, —  Portland, 
Oftober,  1897,  viii.  339-353. 

A  pifturesque  and  reasonable  account  of  what  may  have  happened 
to  Cabot. 


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BEAUDOUIN   (J.  D.)    Jean  Cabot.  (255) 

In  Le  Canada  Franfais,  revue  publiee  sous  la  direftion  d'un 
comite  de  professeurs  de  i'Universite  Laval — ^ebec,OStohre,  1888, 
i.  608-661.  Reprinted  in  the  Bibltotheque  Canadienne, — Le'vis, 
Sluebec,  1898  ;  i6mo,  3  T  -|-  pp  5-tc5. 

Largely  adapted  from  Deane,  No.  327,  but  with  frequent  refer- 
ences by  way  of  correftion,  to  Biddle,  No.  261,  and  to  the  Histoire 
generate  des  Voyages,  published  by  Didot, — Paris,  1754.. 

BEAZLEY  (Charles  Raymond)  John  and  Sebastian 
Cabot  the  discovery  of  North  America  by  C.  Raymond 
Beazley — London^  Longmans,  mdcccxcviii.  (256) 

8vo.     3  T  -t-  pp  xi-xx  4-  3«i  +3  plates. 

"  Documents  mainly  illustrating  the  English  Career  of  John  and 
Sebastian  Cabot,"  an  annotated  chronological  list,  based  upon 
Harrisse,  No.  386*,  with  corrections,  265-291.  "Cabot  Litera- 
ture," based  upon  No.  564,  pp.  292-305. 

The  comments  and  interpretations  in  Mr.  Beazley's  text  are  con- 
servative,  careful,  and  sensible  beyond  precedent  in  recent  Cabotian 
discussions. 

Mr.  Beazley  contributed  an  account  of  the  English  career  of  the 
Cabots  to  Traill,  Social  England, — London,  1894.,  ii.  4.96-498,  iii. 
209-211.     Compare  ii.  462,  where  Mr.  A.  Hassall  states  that  the 


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encouragement  of  Henry  VII,  enabled  Sebastian  Cabot  to  discover 

Newfoundland.  (*57) 

BELLEMO  (ViNCENzo)     Giovanni  Caboto  note  critiche 

per  Vincenzo  Bellemo.  (258) 

In   the  Raccolta  di  documenti  e  studi  pubblicati  dalla  R.  com- 

missione  Colombiana  pel  quarto  centenario   dalla   scoperta   dell' 

America — Roma,   auspice    il   ministero  della  pubblica    istruzione, 

MDCCCxciiii  ;  parte  v.,  ii.  151-218,  folio. 

An  adaptation  and  interpretation  of  HarRISSE,  by  a  resident  of 
Chioggia. 

BENDELARI  (George). 

See  note  under  Cabot,  No.  55%  for  Mr.  Bendelari's  translation 
of  the  legends  on  the  Cabot  1544  map. 

BERGENROTH   (Gustav  Adolph). 

A  letter  from  Mr.  Bergenroth  to  Jared  Sparks,  dated  London,  21 
06lober,  1866,  explaining  the  Cabot  passage  in  the  dispatch  of 
Ay  ALA,  No.  7,  is  printed  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  American 
Antiquarian  Society  for  2+  April,  1867,  pp.  39-40.  (259) 

See  No.  9. 

BERTHOUD  (E.-L.). 

Captain  Berthoud's  translation  of  a  communication  to  V Explora- 
tion of  Paris,  in  the  Kansas  City  Revieiv  for  August,  1882,  is  noted 
under  Cortambert,  No.  311. 

BERTIUS  (Petrus)  P  Bertij  Tabvlarvm  Geographi- 
carvm  contradlarvm  Libri  septem.  In  quibus  Tabulae 
omnes  gradibus  distindtae,  descriptiones  accuratae,  caetera 
supra  priores  editiones  politiora,  Au£lioraqj — jimsterodatni 
Sumptibus  et  typis  asneis  ludoci  Hondij.  161 8.  (260) 

Oblong  8vo.  T  +  8  11  +  PP  3-829  +  5  11.  Pagination  very 
irregular. 

The  Latin  text  ot  Legend  xvii.  on  the  Cabot  map.  No.  55*,  is  on 
pp.  777-780,  apparently  copied  from  Chytr/eus,  No.  75.  There 
are  a  few  curious  differences  in  the  readings  of  the  two  texts,  which 
may  presumably  be  due  to  the  copyist.  The  date  of  the  discovery 
is  given  in  an  introduftory  note  as  1 249.  The  date  of  the  map  in 
the  legend  is  1549.  In  both  cases  the  number  is  given  in  words : 
Baccalos  .  .  .  inventa  anno  millesimo  ducentesimo  quadragesimo 
nono,  die  vigesima  quarta  ;  .  .  .  delineavit  .  .  .  millesimo  quin- 
gentesimo  quadragesimo  nono. 


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BETHUNE   (Charles  Ramsay  Drinkwater), 

Vice-Admiral  Bethune's  edition  of  Galvano  is  described  under 
No.  114. 

BIDDLE  (Richard)  A  memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot; 
with  a  review  of  the  history  of  maritime  discovery,  illus- 
trated by  documents  from  the  rolls,  now  first  published — 
Philadelphia  183 1.  (261) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  iii-viii  +  i-v  +  7-327. 

Reprinted,  London,  1831,  pp  viii  +  v  +  7-3 33- 

Reissued,  London,  1832,  with  leaf  pp.  77-78  cancelled  and  replaced 
by  a  leaf  containing  a  short  extra6l  from  the  recently  recovered 
New  Interlude,  No.  5. 

Issued  anonymously,  although  no  secret  seems  to  have  been  made 
of  the  faft  that  the  author  was  Richard  Biddie,  a  Pittsburg, 
Pennsylvania,  lawyer,  who  resided  in  London  for  a  considerable 
time,  where  he  collefted  material  and  prepared  the  volume  for  the 
press.  Brunet,  Manuel du  Libraire, — Paris,  i860,  i.  14.46,  ascribes 
"  cet  ouvrage  interessant  "  to  M.  D.-B.  Warden. 

Mr.  Biddie  was  led  to  publish  the  material  used  in  this  volume, 
which  he  had  gathered  with  the  intention  of  writing  a  history  of 
early  maritime  discovery,  by  a  desire  to  expose  the  ignorance  and 
the  blunders  revealed  in  an  article  in  the  Biographic  Universelle, — 
Paris,  Michaud,  1828.  Mr.  Biddle's  volume,  in  turn,  by  reason  of 
its  severe  accusations  against  Hakluyt,  was  the  immediate  cause 
of  Tytler's  Historical  Heiv,  No.  551.  See  the  note  under  that 
title  for  Mr.  Biddle's  reply. 

The  volume  immediately  avtradled  much  attention,  and  was  re- 
viewed at  length  in  most  of  the  leading  periodicals.  The  more 
important  articles  were  those  in  the  : 

North  American  Renjienv,  Boston,  April,  1832,  xxxiv.  405-428  ;  by 
George  S.  Hilliard.  (262) 

Monthly  Re'vieiv,  London,  August,  183 1,  cxxv.  (New  Series,  ii.) 
514-521.  (263) 

IVestminster  Re'vienv,  London,  January,  1832,  xvi.  22-37.      (264) 

Re'vue  des  Deux  Mondes,  Paris,  15  Juin,  1832.  (265) 

Bulletin,  Societe  de  Geographic,  Paris,  December,  183 1,  xvi.  283- 
285,  by  Mr.  D.  B.  Warden;  and  April,  1832,  xvii.  197-217,  by 
M.  Roux  de  Rocheile.  (266) 

Annali  Uni^ersali di  Statistica,  Milano,  September,  1832,  xxxiii. 
62-72,  by  Professor  Romagnosi  5  see  No.  502.  (267) 

Penny  Magazine,  Society  for  the  Diffusion  of  Useful  Knowledge, 
London,  27  February,  1836,  v.  79-80  ;  also  in  the  Penny  Cyclopadia 
of  the  same  society,  London  (1846  >),  vi,  94-95.  (268) 

The  account  of  Cabot  in  Errizo,  De  Scoperte  Artiche,  Fenexia, 
1855,  No.  459,  is  largely  drawn  from  Biddie.  (269) 

Harrisse,  No.  383,  p.  372,  records  a  tradition  that  Mr.  Biddie 
felt    certain  criticisms   made   by  Peter  Force  so   keenly  that  he 


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ordered  both  the  American  and  the  English  editions  of  the  work 
to  be  destroyed.  This  is  assumed  to  account  for  the  supposed 
rarity  of  the  Philadelphia  edition.  The  basis  for  the  tradition  has 
not  been  discovered. 

Biddle's  work  "  displays  much  critical  talent,  and  though  com- 
posed with  little  system  and  with  a  strong  bias  in  favour  of  Sebastian 
Cabot,  it  may  be  regarded  as  the  best  review  of  the  history  of 
naritime  discovery  relating  to  the  period  of  which  he  treats,  that 
hid  appeared." — Deane,  No.  327,  p.  43.  Mr,  Biddle's  chief 
contribution  was  in  distinguishing,  for  the  first  time  within  the 
century,  that  there  were  two  Cabot  voyages,  in  14.97  and  1498. 
T'lis  resulted  from  his  recovery  of  the  text  of  Henry  VII. 's  second 
k/fi;-:  latent,  No.  140.  The  striftly  historical  investigation  into 
f!ie  ca  -•  I's  of  the  Cabots  dates  from  the  appearance  of  Mr.  Biddle's 
vol'ime. 

BLACK  (James  William)  The  old  world  at  the  dawn 
of  Western  discovery,  by  Prof.  J.  William  Black  of  Colby 
University.  (270) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  Cabot  Meet- 
ing, Portland,  1897,  viii.  354-397. 

It  is  suggested  by  pp.  386-392  that  Cabot  and  Columbus  may 
have  met  at  the  time  of  the  latter's  voyage  to  Iceland,  or  that  his 
brother  may  have  seen  Cabot  when  he  visited  England  in  1488. 

BLACK   (William  Henry). 

See  note  to  No,  237. 

BLACKWOOD  (Frederick  Temple  Hamilton- 
Temple). 

See  DuFFERiN  and  Ava,  Nos.  338-340. 

BOURINOT  (John  George)  Cape  Breton  and  its 
Memorials  of  the  French  Regime.  By  J.  G.  Bourinot, 
C.M.G.,  LL.D.,  D.C.L.  (27.) 

In  the  Trans aSlions,  1891,  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada, 
Montreal,  1892,  ix.,  seft.  ii.,  173-343  -|- 4  maps -f- plate  ;  folio. 
Also  published  separately. 

The  account  of  the  Cabots,  176-180.  is  supplemented  by  some 
useful  bibliographical,  historical,  and  critical  notes,  295-298. 

See  the  report  presented  by  Dr.  Bourinot  in  the  Transad'ions  of 
the  Royal  Society  of  Canada,  1894,  xii.  p.  xvi-xvii,  for  the  first 
suggestion  made  by  him  for  a  Cabot  quadricentennial  celebration. 

(272) 


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BOURINOT  (John  George)  The  Story  of  Canada  by 
J.  G.  Bourinot — New  Tork^  Putnams,  1896.  (2^73) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xx  +  463  +  map. 

"The  Dawn  ot  Discovery  in  Canada,  1497-1525,"  19-28. 

BOURINOT   (John    George)     The  Cabot  Celebration 

in  Nova  Scotia.     By  John  George  Bourinot.  (^74) 

In  The  Independent — Nenu  J'ork,  24  June,  1897,  xlix..  No.  2534,4 
columns.     Reduced  cut  of  "  John  Cabot's  map." 

BOURINOT  (John  George)  The  makers  of  the  do- 
minion  of  Canada.  A  series  of  Twelve  Illustrated  Papers 
on  Famous  Men  and  Incidents  of  Canadian  History,  from 
the  Norse  and  Cabot  voyages  until  Federal  Unit  (986- 
1867.)  275) 

In  The  Canadian  Magazine,  Toronto,  November,  ^897,  a.  3-15 
(first  paper). 

BOURNE     (Henry    Richard    Fox)      English   Seamen 

under  the  Tudors,  by  H.  R.  Fox  Bourne — London  1868. 

(276) 

8vo.     2  volumes.     2  T   -f-  pp  v-xv  -f  304   -^   4  maps ;  pp  xi 

+  314- 

Chapter  II.,  "The  Voyages  of  the  Cabots,"  i.  24-45.  Cabot's 
Isle  of  St.  John  is  identified  with  Newfoundland. 

BOURNE  (Henry  Richard  Fox)  The  story  of  our 
colonies :  with  sketches  of  their  present  condition,  by 
H.  R.  Fox  Bourne — London  mdccclxix.  (277) 

8vo.     2  T  -t"  pp  iii-xiv  +  41 1. 

"  A  new  and  revised  edition,  with  six  maps,"  was  published  in 
London,  1888. 
Cabot,  pp.  3-7. 

BOURNE  (Henry  Richard  Fox)  English  Merchants : 
memoirs  in  illustration  of  the  progress  of  British  commerce 
by  II.  R.  Fox  Bourne — London^  1866.  (278) 

8vo.     2  volumes.     2  T  -f  v-xv  -f-  pp  427  :  xi  -f  434  +  plates. 

" A  new  edition,  with  illustrations" — London,  1886,  condensed 
into  one  volume  ;  2  T  +  pp  v-xvi  -f-  492  4*  plates. 

Chapter  VI.,  i.  147-163  (71-98  of  1886  edition)  on  the  Thornes 
of  Bristol  and  the  patronage  of  trade  by  Henry  VII.  and  the  Com- 
pany of  Merchant  Adventurers,  describes  the  connexion  between 
the  Cabots  and  British  commercial  development. 

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BOWELL   (Mackenzie). 

See  notes  under  Fleming,  No.  551-352,  and  Bristol,  No.  281, 
for  the  part  taken  by  Sir  Mackenzie  Bowellin  securing  English  co- 
operation for  the  Cabot  celebrations  of  1897. 

BREVOORT  (James  Carson)  Early  voyages  from 
Europe  to  America.  2.  John  Cabot's  Voyage  of  1497. 
By  J.  Carson  Brevoort.  (^79) 

In  7/ie  Historical  Magazitu,  Henry  B.  Dawson,  Morrisania, 
N.T.,  March,  1868,  Ser.  2,  iii.  129-135  +  map. 

Mr.  Brevoort  advanced  the  theory  that  Cabot  was  aware  of  the 
existence  of  the  fishing  banks  and  of  Newfoundland  before  his 
departure  from  England  in  14-97,  and  that  he  purposely  avoided 
this  land  in  his  search  for  a  passage  beyond  to  Cathay. 

BREVOORT  (James  Carson)  Notes  on  Giovanni  da 
Verrazano  and  on  a  planisphere  of  1529,  illustrating  his 
American  voyage  in  1524,  writh  a  reduced  copy  of  the 
map.     By  James  Carson  Brevoort.  (280) 

In  the  Journal  of  the  American  Geographical  Society, — Nent' 
York,  1874,  iv.  145-297  -J-  2  maps.     Read  28  November,  1871. 
Cabot,  seftion  vi.,  213-214. 

BRISTOL,  ENGLAND  Cabot  Celebration,  1897. 
Preliminary  Proceedings — Bristol^  1896.  (281) 

i8mo.  T  +  pp  3-13.  Reprinted  from  a  report  in  the  IVestern 
Daily  Press,  Bristol,  27  June,  1896. 

The  Mansion  House  dinner  of  which  this  is  the  record  was  held 
for  the  purpose  of  giving  Sir  Sandford  Fleming  and  Sir  Mackenzie 
Bowell  an  opportunity  to  explain  the  plans  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Canada  and  to  secure  the  co-operation  of  Bristol  in  a  Cabot  quad- 
ricentennial  celebration.     See  Dawson,  No.  318. 

From  suggestions  made  at  this  dinner,  John  Cassidy,  of  the 
Manchester  Museum  of  Fine  Arts,  received  the  idea  which  de- 
veloped into  the  superb  statuary  group,  "John  Cabot  and  his  son 
Sebastian,"  which  was  exhibited  during  the  summer  of  1897  in 
New  Gallery,  London.  A  photograph  of  the  group  is  reproduced 
in  the  Ne-iv  England  Magazine, — Boston,  February,  1898,  xvii.  652. 

(282) 

The  exercises  at  the  laying  of  the  foundation  stone,  and  at  the 
formal  opening  of  the  Cabot  Memorial  Tower  on  Brandon  Hill, 
Bristol,  are  mentioned  under  Dufferin,  Nos.  339-340. 

The  speeches  at  the  second  of  these  occasions,  6  September,  1898, 
as  reported  in  the  Bristol  IVestern  Daily  Press  of  the  following  day, 
and  especially  the  remarks  of  the  Mayor,  Sir  Robert  H.  Symes,  re- 


Cabot  JBiblioora^bs 


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vealed an  increasing  appreciation  of  the  faft  th.-it  '"  glory  of  Bristol 
is  not  so  much  in  the  circumstance  that  Cah- »  chose  that  town  for 
his  home,  as  that  Bristol  merchants  made  the  voyage  of  1497 
possible  by  their  financial  support,  and  that  native  Bristol  sailors 
manned  the  craft  commaiided  by  Cabot.  (283) 

Histories  of  Bristol  are  described  under  Barrett,  Corrv, 
Davies,  Hunt,  Latimer,  Nicholls,  and  Sever. 

The  Bristol  Librarian,  John  Taylor,  in  his  Book  about  Bristol  ■, 
historical,  ecclesiastical,  and  hiograp/iical,— London,  1872,  does  not 
mention  the  Cabots.  (284) 

BRITANNICA,   ENCYCLOPi^DIA. 

The  account  of  Cabot  in  the  EncyclopaJia  Britannica,  ninth 
edition,  Edinburgh,  1875,  'V.  622-623,  is  exceptionally  careful  and 
trustworthy,  despite  its  English  leanings  and  tiie  acceptance  of  the 
1517  voyage  without  qualification.  (*8s) 

The  article  on  Bristol,  which  is  of  more  importance  to  Cabot 
students,  is  described  under  Taylor,  No.  544. 

BROWN    (Rawdon  Lubbock). 

The  works  of  Mr.  Rawdon  Brown  are  chiefly  interesting  to 
Cabot  students  on  account  of  the  documents  which  were  first  pub- 
lished by  him.     They  are  described  above  as  Nos.  15-17. 

BROWN  (Richard)  A  history  of  the  island  of  Cape 
Breton  with  some  account  of  the  discovery  and  settlement 
of  Canada,  Nova  Scotia,  and  Newfoundland  by  Richard 
Brown — London^  Sampson  Low,  1869.  (286) 

8vo.     2  T  -H  pp  v-xv  +  464  +  2  plates  +  8  maps. 
The  account  of  the  Cabots  in  this  Cape  Breton  book,  pp.  7-13, 
locates  the  landfall  on  the  Labrador  coast. 

BROWNSON   (Henry  F.). 

See  Tarducci,  No.  540. 

BRUNO    (A.)     Per  Giovanni  e  Sebastiano  Caboto     (287) 

In  the  Giornale  Ligustico, — Genova,  July-Oftober,  1897,  Anno 
xxii.,fasc.  7-10  [Nuova  Serie,  vol.  ii.],  pp.  381-389  (C.  E.,  see  No. 

343")- 

BRYANT  (William  Cullen)  A  popular  history  of  the 
United  States,  from  the  first  discovery  by  the  northmen, 
to  the  end  of  the  first  century  of  the  union  of  the  states 
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of  the  nomad  builders.     By  William  Cullen  Bryant  and 
Sidney  Howard  Gay — New  Tork^  Scribners,  i876(-i88i) 

(288) 

Large  8vo.     4.  volurr.»s. 

Reprinted  as  Scribner's  tt^pular  History,  Neav  York,  1896,  with  a 
fifth  volume  and  the  fourth  rewritten  by  Noah  Brooks. 

The  account  of  the  Cabots,  i.  129-138,  written  by  Mr.  Gay,  is 
useful  as  an  intelligent  summary  of  the  results  accepted  by  the  best 
known  students  in  1876. 

BRYMNER  (Douglas)  Report  on  Canadian  archives  by 
Douglas  Brymner,  Archivist,  1897  (Being  an  Appendix 
to  Report  or  the  Mii.ister  of  Agriculture.) — Ottawa^  1898. 

(289) 

8vo.  2  T  +  pp  iii-xxiv  +  1-125  +  253-395  +  81-179  +  2 
maps. 

This  report  contains  the  photoUthograph  facsimile  of  the  Cabot 
15+4  map,  No.  39',  made  from  a  negative  taken  in  Paris  by  direc- 
tion of  the  Minister  of  Agriculture  and  deposited  with  the  Archi- 
vist.    See  Dawson,  No.  321. 

BULLO  (Carlo)  La  vera  patria  di  Nicolo  de'  Conti 
e  di  Giovanni  Caboto  studj  e  documenti — Chioggiaj  1 880. 

(290) 

8vo.     T  -t-  pp  v-xxxiii  +91. 

An  unconvincing  argument  that  John  Cabot  was  born  in  Chioggia. 
The  footnotes  are  useful  as  a  guide  to  the  Italian  secondary  Cabo- 
tian  literature.  According  to  Harrisse,  No.  383,  p.  372,  this 
work  is  based  upon  Moroni,  Annuale  V^eneto,  f^enezia,  1786. 

"  Lettera  di  G.  Lanza  a  C.  BuUo,  sulla  vera  patria  di  Giovanni 
Caboto,"  dated  Venezia,  29  Marzo,  1876,  pp.  70-91.  (*9o') 

BULLO  (Carlo)  Ancora  della  patria  di  Giovanni 
Caboto.  (29) 

In  the  Nuovo  Archivio  feneto, — Fenexia,  1897,  xiv.  24.6-252 
(C.  E.,  see  No.  343"). 

BURKE  (Edmund)  An  account  of  the  European  Settle- 
ments in  America — London^  mdcclvii.  (292) 

8vo.  2  volumes.  T  -|-  3  11  -J-  pp  312  ■{■  map;  T  -f  pp  300 
-f  10  11  +  map. 

Reprinted,  London,  1758,  1760,  1765,  1766,  1770,  1777,  1808, 
Dublin,  1762,1777;  Boj/o»,  1835,  1851.  Translated,  P^jrix,  1767, 
1780;  Amsterdam  and  Leipzig,  1775  and  1778;  Dantzig,  1777; 
FeneKia,  1763. 


Cabot  JSibliodrapbi? 


117 


For  an  admirable  suggestion  ot  tlie  impression  which  an  intelligent 
reader  was  likely  to  receive  from  a  careful  examination  ot  the  avail- 
able  information  respefting  the  Cabots,  before  the  recovery  of 
documentary  sources  in  the  nineteenth  century,  see  ii.  133. 

BURRAGE    (Henry    Storrs)     The  cartography  of  the 
period.     By  Rev.  Henry  S.  Burrage.  (293) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  Cabot  Meet- 
ing,— Portland,  junty  1897,  viii.  398-415. 

BUSCH    (Wilhelm)     England  unter  den  Tudors.     Von 

Dr.  Wilhelm  Busch  .  .  .   Konig  Heinrich  VII.     1485- 

1509 — Stuttgart^  1892.  (294) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xii  -f  434. 

"Die  Bristoler  u.  Cabotto,"  166-169;  with  references  to  the 
sources  on  the  more  perplexing  problems,  367-369. 

CAMPBELL  (John)  Lives  of  the  Admirals  and  other 
Eminent  British  Seamen, containing  their  personal  histories 
and  a  detail  of  all  their  public  services.  Including  a  new 
and  accurate  Naval  History  from  the  earliest  accounts  of 
Time  :  and  clearly  proving,  by  a  continued  Series  of  Fa6ts, 
our  uninterrupted  Claim  to,  and  Enjoyment  of,  the  Do- 
minion of  our  Seas.  Interspersed  with  many  curious 
Passages  relating  to  our  Discoveries,  Plantations,  and 
Commerce.  The  whole  supported  by  proper  Authorities. 
By  John  Campbell,  Esq.  The  Second  Edition,  carefully 
revised,  corrected  and  enlarged. — London^  i  750.         (295) 

8vo.  4  volumes.  T  -{-  i  1  -f  pp  543  ;  T  -f-  pp  476  -f  12  11  ; 
T  -f  pp  3-488  ;  T  4-  pp  4S3  +  8  11. 

Lowndes  states  that  the  first  edition  was  published  in  1744 ;  it 
is  not  in  the  British  Museum.  A  Dublin  edition  is  said  to  be 
dated  1748.  The  work  was  frequently  reprinted,  with  slight 
changes;  London,  1761,  1779,  1781,  1785,  and,  perhaps  the  best 
edition,  brought  down  to  date  by  Dr.  Burkenhout,  Henry  Redhead 
Yorke,  and  William  Stevenson,  Z-o«i/o«,  1812-1817,  8  vols.  [H.  N.S.] 

The  account  of  the  Cabots  in  this  work,  i.  326-331,  385-399, 
of  the  1750  edition,  or  I.  312-316,  373-387  of  the  1812-17  edition, 
probably  represented  the  standard  secondary  authority  until  the 
appearance  of  BiDDl.E,  No.  261.  The  statement  that  Sebastian 
Cabot  was  Governor  of  the  Company  of  Merchant  Adventurers 
during  their  struggle  with  the  Steelyard  in  1551,  is  in  i.  232, 
Dublin  1748  edition  (395,  1750,  or  383,  1812-17.)  See  Harrisse, 
No.  387,  p.  331,  and  the  IntroduSlion,  p.  1. 


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CAMPBELL   (William  Wilfred). 

A  poem  commemorative  of  the  Halifax  Cabot  celebration,  24. 
June,  1897,  was  printed  in  the  Halifax  Morning  Chronicle  of  that 
date.  It  appeari  also  to  have  furnished  the  inspiration  for  an 
editorial  in  the  Independent — Nenv  York,  24  June,  1897,  xlix..  No. 
Z334,  which  expounds  the  significance  ci  the  "achievement  to 
which  we  owe  it  that  North  America  is  dominated  by  a  race  speak- 
ing the  English  language."  (298) 

CARTWRIGHT   (William  Cornwallis). 

See  note  under  Ayala,  No.  7'»,  for  Mr.  Cartwright's  memorial 
sketch  of  Gustave  Bergenroth. 

CASSIDY   (John). 

See  note  under  Bristol,  No.  282. 

CERVETTO   (L.  A.)     Per  Giovanni  e  Sebastiano  Caboto 

(299) 
In  the  Giornale  Ligustico, — Gefto'va,  July-06tober,    1897,  Anno 

xxii,,  fasc.  7-10   [Nuova  Serie,  vol.  ii.],   pp.   38 1-389   (C.   E.,  see 

No.  343''). 

An  article  on  the  Genoese  birth  ot  Cabot  was  contributed  bySig. 

Cervetto  to  the  Cittadino — Genoa,  9  July,  1897,  with  the  heading, 

W  Centenario  di  Giotianni  Cabotto  gloria  ligiire. 

CHALMERS   (George). 

The  Political  Annals  of  the  Present  United  Colonies, — London, 
M.DCC.LXXX.  (4to,  pp.  (10)  -f  69<;)  is  referred  to  under  Henry 
VII.,  No.  136.  '  (300) 

CHAMBERS     Sebastian  Cabot,  the  Navigator.  (301) 

In  Chambers'  Journal,  Edinburgh,  14  March,  1840,  ix.  59-60, 
folio  series. 

This  is  one  of  the  earliest  siiggestions  that  the  Cabot  voyage  of 
discovery  was  made  by  way  of  Iceland. 

CHANNING  (Edward)  and  HART  (Albert  Bush- 
nell)  Guide  to  the  study  of  American  History  by 
Edward  Channing  and  Albert  Bushnell  Hart — Boston^ 
Ginn,  1896  (302) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xvi  +  471. 

The  Cabots,  246-247  ;  an  introductory  bibliography. 
See  No.  64  for  the  leaflet  of  Sources  edited  by  Professor  Channing 
of  Harvard. 


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CHEYNEY   (Edward). 

See  the  note  under  Brown,  No.   16,  for  Mr.  Cheyney's  part  in 
bringing  the  Cabot  documents  discovered  in  the  Venetian  archives 


to  the  notice  of  English  students. 


CHRISTY  (Miller). 

Mr.  Miller  Christy's  edition  of  Nort/mjest  Fox  is  described  as 


No. 


ISO. 


CHURCH   (George  Earl). 

Colonel  Church, in  the  discussion  of  MARKHAM,fottr/A  Cf/z/^wwary 
Address,  No.  453,  at  the  meeting  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society, 
12  April,  1897,  reported  in  The  Geograp/iical  Journal,  London,  ]\\v\ii, 
1897,  ix.  616-619,  presenteti  various  possible  calculations  which 
were  designed  to  prove  that  Cabot's  1497  voyage  could  not  possibly 
have  occupied  as  short  a  time,  about  95  days,  as  has  usually  been 
assumed.  Much  curious  learning  was  displayed  in  regard  to  the 
presumable  length  of  the  league  which  Cabot  and  the  Italians  who 
reported  his  achievements  may  have  used.  Colonel  Church  suggested 
that  Cabot  started  on  his  \'oyage  in  May,  1496,  and  returned  in 
August,  1497,  the  return  voyage  alone  having  occupied  the  ihree 
months  usually  assigned  to  the  entire  voyage  both  to  and  from  the 
new  world.  He  conceived  that  Cabot  would  naturally  take  a  cargo 
of  breadstufFs,beer  and  liquors,  to  Iceland,  where  he  would  exchange 
these  for  a  store  of  fish,  and  thence  follow  the  well-known  route  of 
the  Vikings  to  the  western  islands.  He  discredited  the  long  delay 
between  the  granting  of  the  patent  in  1496  and  the  sailing  in  May, 
1497,  inasmuch  as  "  it  was  easy  for  a  merchant  of  the  wealth  and 
position  of  Cabot  to  enlist  any  support  he  may  have  solicited  to  fit 
out  a  ship  which  he  himself  was  to  command.  His  eager  wish  to 
solve  the  riddle  of  the  West  had  impelled  him  to  successfully  spur 
the  bold  sailors  of  Bristol  to  fit  out  several  expeditions.  .  .  .  But 
now  the  great  Cabot  was  to  sail  in  person.  Everything  must  have 
urged  him  to  prompt  aflion,"  p.  618.  (303) 

This  discussion  oflTers  the  clearest  and  most  reasonable  presenta- 
tion of  the  views  advocated  by  Mr.  E.  J.  Payne  ;  see  No.  473*. 

COLBY  (Charles  William)  Seledlions  from  the 
Sources  of  English  History  Being  a  supplement  to  text 
books  of  English  History.  B.C.  55.  a.d.  1832 — London 
1899.  (304) 

8vo.     2  T  -{-  pp  v-xxxvii  +  3*5- 

"  John  Cabot's  First  Voyage  (1497),"  the  letter  of  Raimondo 
Di  SoNCiNO,  copied  from  Weare,  pp.  133-135. 

Critical  review  notices  of  Cabot  books,  by  Professor  Colby,  of 
McGill  University,   Montreal,  were  published   in   The  Nation,— 


'( 'i ' 


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1 2  o  Cabot  JSibliOGrapbs 

Nenu  York,  21  06lober,  1897,  Ixv.  325-326;  and  4  August,  1898, 
Ixvii.  96-97.  See  the  notes  to  Weare,  No.  560,  and  Dawson, 
No.  319.  (304"; 

COOTE  (Charles  Henry)  Note  on  the  "  New  Map," 
by  C.  H.  Coote.  (305) 

In  Davis,  edited  by  A.  H.  Markham,  No.  87,  Z-T^i/ow,  Hakliiyt 
Society,  1880,  pp.  Ixxxv-xcv. 

See  note  under  Molineux,  No.  174'. 

COOTE  (Charles  Henry)  Sebastian  Cabot,  1474- 
1557-  (306) 

In  the  Diiiionary  of  National  Biography,  edited  by  Leslie  Stephen, 
London,  1886,  viii.  166-171. 

Advocates  a  Bristol  birthplace  for  Sebastian,  and  a  projefted 
voyage  with  Pert  in  1 5 1 7.     There  is  an  excellent  short  bibliography. 

The  introduftion  to  Lord  Crawford's  reproduflion  of  tliree 
mappemondes  is  described  under  Desceliers,  No.  90. 

CORDEIRO    (Luciano)     La  part  prise  par  les  Portugais 

dans  la  decouverte  de  TArnerique.  (3^7) 

In  the  Compte-rendu  of  the  Congres  International  des  Ameri- 

canistes,  Nancy,  1875,  !•  ••  232-324,  469-479.     Reprinted,  Lisbon, 

1876. 

The  Cabot  voyages  are  discussed,  317-324  and  469-479,  with 
special  reference  to  the  probable  or  possible  relations  between  the 
English  and  Portuguese  expeditions,  the  priority  of  discovery  of  the 
fishing  grounds,  etc. 

CORREA  (Caspar)  Lendas  da  India  por  Caspar  Correa 
publicadas  de  ordem  da  Classe  de  sciencias  maraes,  politicas 
e  bellas  lettras  da  Academia  real  das  sciencias  de  Lisboa 
.  .  .  Obra  subsidiada  pelo  governo  de  Portugal — Lisboa 
i858(-i864)  (308) 

4to.     4  volumes. 

"  N'este  anno  de  527  partio  de  Seuilha  hum  Bastiao  Gabato, 
biscaynho,  grande  piloto  .  .  ."  iii.  109. 

CORRY  (John)  The  History  of  Bristol,  civil  and  ecclesi- 
astical ;  including  Biographical  Notices  of  eminent  and 
distinguished  natives.  By  John  Corry — Bristol  18:6(309) 

8vo.     2  volumes.     T  -|-  i  1  +  pp  iv  -|-  479  -|-  3  plates  ;  T  -|- 
pp  iv  +  445  -H  9  plates. 
The  account  of  Cabot,  i.  310-319,  is  derived  from  Hakluyt. 


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CORT/iMBERT  (Richard)     La  Mappemonde  de  Cabot 

(310) 

In  f  Exploration,  Paris,  June,  i88j,  xii.  838-839. 

M.  Cortambert,  the  librarian  of  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale, 
claims  to  have  been  the  first  to  perceive  the  significance  of  the  date 
1494  on  the  Cabot  map  of  1544. 

A  translation  of  this  communication,  by  Captain  E.  L.  Ber- 
THOUD,  in  the  Kansas  City  Revie-xv  of  Science  ami  Industry,  Kansas 
City,  Missouri,  August,  1882,  vi.  218-219,  ends  with  a:  "Note. 
Capt.  Berthoud  informs  us  that  he  owns  Sebastian  Cabot's  map 
with  the  '  Phrima  Vista  Land  '  marked  upon  it.     [Ed.  Review." 

(3«i) 

CORTAMBERT  (Richard)     Jean  et  Sebastien  Cabot 

(312) 

In  V Exploration,  Paris,  1882,  xiii.  473-478. 

CORTAMBERT  (Richard)  Nouvelle  histoire  des 
voyages  et  des  grandes  decouvertes  gcographiques  dans 
tous  lea  temps  et  dans  tous  les  pays  par  Richard  Cortam- 
bert. L'Amerique.  Le  pole  nord. — Paris  [n.d.  1883 
or  1884.]  (313) 

Folio.     T  +  pp  808  +  plates. 

An  interesting  account  of  the  Cabots,  from  a  charafteristically 
French  point  of  view,  is  on  pp.  207-217. 

M.  Cortambert's  introduction  to  the  Atlas  of  Jomard  is  described 
as  No.  149. 

DAHLGREN   (E.  W.). 

The  descriptive  text  accompanying  Mr.  Dahlgren'sreproduftion 
of  the  Santa  Cruz  mappemonde  is  described  as  No.  204. 

DALY  (Charles  Patrick)  On  the  early  history  of  car- 
tography, or  what  we  know  of  maps  and  map-making, 
before  the  time  of  Mercator.     By  Charles  P.  Daly.  (314) 

In  the  Journal oi  the  American  Geographical  Society,  Neuo  York, 
1879,  "'•  ^"+°  +  21  plates.     Also  issued  separately. 

The  Cabot  1 544  map  is  reproduced  in  small  facsimile  on  a  fold- 
ing plate,  although  no  reference  is  made  to  it  in  the  text. 

DAVIES  (W.  Howell)  Modern  Bristol.  By  W. 
Howell  Davies,  One  of  the  Bristol  Delegates  to  the  Cabot 
Celebration.  (3^5) 


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122  Cabot  36iblioorapby 

In  the  Proceedings  and  TransaSiions  ot  the  Royal  Society  of 
Canada,  Ottaiva,  1897,  pp.  cxliii-dviii.     Also  issued  separately. 

DAWSON    (Henry  Barton) 
See  note  to  Deane,  No.  323. 

DAWSON  (Samuel  Edward)  The  Voyages  of  the 
Cabots  in  1497  and  1498  ;  with  an  attempt  to  deterr  line 
their  landfall  and  to  identify  their  island  of  St.  John.  By 
Samuel  Edward  Dawson,  Lit.D.  (Laval).  Presented  Mav 
22,  1894.  (316) 

In  the  Proceedings  and  TransaSiions  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Canada,  0//«xt'<7,  i895,xii.  se6l.  ii.  51-112.     Also  issued  separately. 

In  this  paper  Dr.  Dawson  examined  all  the  evidence  which 
throws  light  upon  the  Cahot  discovery,  and  with  much  skill  pre- 
sented arguments  to  show  that  the  landfall  on  24  June,  1+97,  was 
the  easternmost  point  of  Cape  Breton  Island,  at  or  near  the  cape 
Breton.  A  careful  study  of  all  the  available  maps,  many  of  which 
are  reproduced  by  traced  facsimiles,  enabled  him  to  present  very 
strong  reasons  for  believing  that  the  island  of  St.  John  was  the 
pre;"-ent  Scatari  islaml  ;  that  the  island  named  St.  Johii  ( i:  the  i  544 
Cabot  map  was  the  present  Magdalen  group  j  and  tL;  £  it  could 
not  have  been  Prince  Edward  Island,  because  this  was  not  shown 
to  be  an  island  on  the  maps  earlier  than  1632. 

See  the  notes  under  Cabot,  No.  39^. 

DAWSON  (Samuel  Edward)  The  Voyi;ges  of  the 
Cabots  in  1497  ^"^  H98 — A  sequel  to  a  v-aper  in  the 
"Transactions"  of  1894.  By  Samuel  Edward  Dawson, 
Read  May  19,  1896.  (3^7) 


In   the  Proceeding.' 
Canada,  Ottazua,  iS  ; 


'■;»(/  TransaSiions  of  the   Royal  Society  of 


cr.  ii.  se(fl.  ii.  3-30  j  also  issued  in  : 


DAWSON  (Samuel  Ildward)  The  discovery  of  America 
by  John  Cabot  in  1497  being  extracts  from  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada  relative  to  a  Cabot 
celebration  in  1897  ^""^  ^^^  voyages  of  the  Cabots.  A 
paper  from  the  Transactions  of  the  society  in  1896  with 
appendices  on  kindred  subje6ls  by  Samuel  Edward  Dawson 
— Ottawa  1896  (318) 

8vo.     Cover  4-  T  4-  pp  iii-xiv  +  3-30  ■\-  map. 

This  contains  the  report  of  the  Council  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Canada  on  the  proposed  Cabot  celebration,  reprinted  from  the  same 
volume  of  the  Proceedings,  R.S.C.,  pp.  xxiii-xxxii. 


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Dr.  Dawson,  in  reply  to  criticisms  brought  )ut  by  his  first  paper, 
developed  the  arguments  which  show  that  a  Cabotian  landfall  on 
the  Labrador  coast  is  most  improbable.  His  very  strong  argument 
was  weakened  by  the  assumption  that  Harrisse  had  located  the 
landfall  upon  the  northernmost  point  of  Labrador,  Cape  Chidleigh 
or  Chidley. 

Other  contributions  to  this  discussion  are  noted  under  Harvey, 
Wrong,  and  Harrisse,  Nos.  388-396,  who  writes  "  as  Dr.  Dawson 
saw  fit  to  place  his  theory  on  mathematical  grounds  (implied  in  his 
appeal  to  the  magnetic  variation)  I  thought  fit  in  my  turn  to  give 
him  math''matics  to  his  heart's  content." 

Dawson  (Samuel  Edward)  The  Voyages  of  the 
Cabots.  Latest  Phases  of  the  Controversy.  By  Samuel 
Edward  Dawson.  (3^9) 

In  the  Proceedings  and  TronsaBions  of  the  i^oyal  Society  of 
Canada, — Ottaiva,  1897,  new  series,  iii.  se6f.  ii.  139-268  +  4  maps 
-f  facsimile.     Also  issued  separately. 

Dr.  Dawson  undertook  in  this  paper  to  summarize  the  discussion 
to  date,  and  he  succeeded  admirably  in  replying  to  the  various  ob- 
jeftions  which  had  been  raised  against  his  thesis.  The  references 
provide  a  useful  guide  to  the  animated  discussion,  conduced  mainly 
in  the  columns  of  the  Canadian  daily  press  during  1897,  between 
the  advocates  of  the  various  locations  for  the  Cabot  landfall.  See 
Harrisse,  Nos.  396  and  397  ;  Howley,  No.  +17  ;  Dionne,  No. 
332  ;  Colby  in  the  Neiv  York  Nation  of  4  August,  1898,  Ixvi ; 
the  Re'vie-iv  of  Historical  Publications  relating  to  Canada^  1897,-- 
Toronto,  1898,  ii.  30-41  j  the  American  Historical  Re'vien.v, — Neiv 
York,  06tober,  1898,  iv.  159-162;  and  the  Glasgonv  Herald,  21 
April,  1898. 

Taken  together,  Dr.  Dawson's  three  papers  contain  by  far  the 
most  reasonable  and  the  most  useful  discussion  of  the  landfall 
problems. 

DAWSON  (Samuel  Edward)  Memorandum  upon  the 
Cabot  map.  (321) 

In  Brymner,  Report  on  Canadian  Archives, — O  'a-iva,  1898, 
102-105. 

See  No.  289.  The  legends  from  the  Cabot  1  544  map.  No.  55", 
are  reprinted  from  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Proceedings, 
%  series,  vi.  305-339,  on  pp.  106-125. 

DEANE  (Charles)  Remarks  of  Mr.  Charles  Deane  on 
Sebastian  Cabot's  Mappe-monde.  (32^2) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  for  24 
April,   1867, — Cambridge,    1867,   43-50.      Fifty   copies  reprinted 


t 


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•  24  Cabot  3Blblioorapb^ 

s,epzrzte\y, —CambrUse,  1867,  2  T  +  pp  1-8,  with  an  additional 
footnote  pasted  on  p.  8. 

Mr.  Deane  made  a  preliminary  report  upon  the  map,  which  he  had 
recently  examined  for  the  first  time,  to  the  American  Antiquarian 
Society,  20  Oftober,  1866  j  Proceedings,— Cambridge y  1866,  10-14. 
These  remarks  were  also  reported  in  the  Historical  Magazine, — 
Morrisania,  New  York,  November,  1866,  x.  353-354,  with  an  enter- 
taining note  on  the  "  discovery "  of  historical  documents,  by 
Henry  B.  Dawson.  (323) 

Mr.  Deane  contributed  two  extended  notes  on  Hakluyt's  use 
of  the  Cabot  voyages,  in  the  Discours  of  1584,  No.  126,  for  the 
1877  edition,  pp.  192-195  ;  and  on  the  conflifting  evidence  in 
regard  to  the  Cabot  1544  mappemonde,  pp.  222-228.  (324-) 

Mr.  Deane's  remarks  on  presenting  a  photograph  of  the  Cabot 
map.  No.  39'',  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  are  in  the 
Society's  Proceedings iov  Oftober,  iSSz,— Boston,  1882, xix.  387-388. 

(32s) 

DEANE     (Charles)      The    Mappemonde    of    Sebastian 
Cabot.  (326) 

In  Science, — Cambridge,  Massachusetts,  23  February,  1883,  i. 
62-65, 

DEANE   (Charles)     The  Voyages  of  the  Cabots.     By 
Charles  Deane.  (3^7) 

In  WiNSOR,  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of  America, —  Boston 
(1884),  iii.  1-58  +  2  maps.     Also  issued  separately. 

The  "Critical  essay  on  the  source  of  information,"  7-58,  affords 
the  most  satisfactory  beginning  for  the  study  of  any  phase  of  the 
Cabot  questions.  In  addition  to  the  a6lual  sources,  it  contains 
discriminating  comments  on  the  more  important  modern  works 
which  had  then  been  published.  It  gives  "  a  cautious  and  thorough 
examination  of  all  the  evidence,  extended  or  brief,  worthy  of 
consideration  .  ,  .  surveyed  in  a  chronological  way.  A  study  of 
Mr.  Deane's  treatment  is  peculiarly  indicative  of  the  hazards  to 
which  historical  statements  are  subjefled  during  transmission  from 
one  writer  to  another,  under  the  influence  of  tradition,  chance  know- 
ledge, inference,  and  conjefture." — WiNSOR,  Contro-versies,  No. 
571,  p.  15. 

Mr.  Deane's  transcript  of  the  legends  on  the  Cabot  map,  printed 
in  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Proceedings  for  1891,  are 
described  under  Cabot,  No.  55". 

DE'-'IMONI   (CoRNELio)    Relazione  sugH  scopritori  geno- 
vesi  [del  medio  evo,  e  sul  modo  come  ess!  furono  recente- 


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Caboto]  "  (328) 

In  the  Giornale  Ligustico, — Geno'va,  1874,  i.  308-316. 

DESIMONI  (CoRNELio)  Intorno  a  Giovanni  Caboto 
Genovese  scopritore  del  Labrador  e  di  altre  regioni  dell' 
alta  America  settentrionale  Documenti  pubblicati  ed  illus- 
trati  Hal  socio  Cornelio  Desimoni.  (329) 

In  tht  Atti  Jella  Societa  Ligure  di  Storia  Patria, — Getio-va,  188 1, 
XV.  179-239.     Also  issued  separately. 

The  important  documents  are  printed  on  pp.  219-239.  Two 
pages  of  "  Libri  consultati  diretta  mente  "  contain  the  titles  of 
several  useful  continental  publications  upon  the  Cabots. 

This  essay  marks  an  important  step  towards  the  establishment  of 
the  faft  that  John  Cabot  was  born  in  Genoa. 

DEXTER  (George)  Early  European  Voyagers  in  Massa- 
chusetts Bay.  (330) 

In  WiNSOR,  Memorial  History  of  Boston, — Boston,  1880,  i.  23-36. 
Also  issued  separately. 

The  Cabot  voyages,  29-32. 

DEXTER  (George)  Thetestimony  of  Fabyan's  Chronicle 
to  Hakluyt's  account  of  the  Cabots.     By  George  Dexter. 

(330 
In    the    Proceedings   of  the   American   Antiquarian   Society, — 
Worcester^  1882,  new  series,!.  436-441. 

This  is  an  important  analysis  of  the  use  which  Stow  and  Holin- 
SHED  made  of  the  Fabyan  manuscript.  No.  105,  and  of  the 
probable  source  from  which  Hakluyt  took  his  extracts  from  ii. 

DIONNE  (Narcisse  Eutrope)  John  and  Scbastidn 
Cabot.  _  (332) 

In  Le  Courrier  du  Li-vre  Canadiana, — ^^i^r,  May-June,  1898, 
iii.  8-18,  35-46.     Also  issued  separately. 

In  these  articles,  the  librarian  to  the  legislature  of  the  province 
of  Quebec  elaborated  his  strong  "  convi6lion  that  Cabot  never  put 
his  foot  on  Cape  Breton  land,"  a  belief  to  which  he  had  previously 
given  expression  in  a  series  of  six  articles  contribuff;d  to  the 
Courrier  du  Canada, — Siuebec,  February  and  March,  1896.     (332') 

In  a  review  of  Harrisse,  Cabot,  No.  387,  in  the  American  His- 
torical Re'vieiv, — Neiv  York,  July,  1896,  i.  717-721,  M.  Dionne 
gave  a  clear  statement  of  the  more  important  problems  raised  in 
that  volume,  and  of  the  solutions  proposed.  (333) 


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DOCUMENTI  inediti  intorno  ai  primi  scopritori  italiani 

delle  terre  americane.  (334) 

In  the  Annali  uni'versali di statistica, economia pubblica, legislazione, 

storia,  'viaggi  e  com>nercio,~Milano,  1865,  4tli  ser.,  xxi.  (clxi.),  204- 

214.. 

Reprinted  as  : 

L' America  e  gli  scopritori  italiani.  (334*) 

In  the  Annuario  scientijico  ed  industriale, — Milano,  1866,  ii.  700- 
704. 

This  is  an  abstraft  of  a  discussion  in  the  Ateneo  di  Milano,  13 
April,  1865,  upon  the  documents  published  by  Barbera  Pezzi, 
No.  251.  The  significant  portions  of  the  documents  are  repi<nted. 
— Titles  and  notes  from  Fumagalli,  No.  358. 

DONEAUD   (G.)     I  Caboto  di  Porto  Maurizio.        (335) 

In  La  Pro'vincia,  giornale  settimanale  di  Porto  Maurizio,  19,  26 
November,  1881,  vol.  ii. — Title  from  Harrisse,  No,  383'',  and 
Fumagalli,  No.  358. 

DOYLE  (John  Andrew)  English  Colonies  in  America. 
Virginia,  Maryland,  and  the  Carolinas  by  J.  A.  Doyle. — 
London^  1882.  (33^) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xvi  +  420  +  map. 

The  account  of  the  Cabots,  22-26  and  37-39,  is  supplemented 
by  Appendix  C,  "The  Cabots  and  their  Voyages,"  399-407.  This 
was  apparently  written  when  the  Paris  Library  was  the  "  Biblio- 
theque  Irnperiale,"  and  whenBiDDLE  and  NiCHOLLS  were  the  two 
writers  who  "  have  made  a  special  study  of  the  career  of  Sebastian 
Cabot."  No  American  ought  to  complain  that  the  credit  is  given 
to  Bryant  and  Gay,  No.  288,  of  having  cut  theGordian  knot  of 
the  Cabot  1544  map  by  boldly  supposing  iv  to  be  a  misprint  for 


DOYLE  (William)  Some  account  of  the  British  do- 
minions beyond  the  Atlantic  :  containing  chiefly  What  is 
most  interesting  and  least  known  with  respe(ft  to  those 
Parts  :  particularly,  The  important  Question  about  the 
north  west  passage  Is  satisfa6torily  discussed :  with  a  large 
map;  in  which  The  said  supposed  Passage,  and  all  the 
Ardlic  Regions,  are  more  fully  delineated  than  ever  before  : 
By  William  Doyle — London.  (337) 

8vo.     2  T  +  I  1  -f  pp  xvi  -f-  87  -t-  17  ip. 

The  suggestion  on  p,  xi  that  British  ixorth  America  should  be 
called  Sebastia  in  honour  of  its  discoverer,  Sebastian  Cabot,  and 


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that  even  more  fantastic  alterations  of  the  names  of  other  portions 
of  the  New  Woriil  should  be  adopted,  has  led  recent  writers  to 
mention  this  book  more  frequently  than  its  intrinsic  value,  whether 
for  information  or  for  influence  ujion  the  contemporary  public, 
would  seem  to  justify. 

DUFFERIN  AND  AVA  (Frederick  Temple  Hamil- 
ton Temple  Blackwood,  Marqiiis  of)  John  Cabot. 
By  the  Marquis  of  Dufferin  and  Ava.  (33^) 

In  Scribner's  Magazine^ — Ne-tv  York,  July,  1897,  xxii.  62-80. 

The  illustrations  were  selefteil  by  Mr.  Wilberforce  Eames,of  the 
Lenox  Library. 

Lord  DufFerin's  article,  replete  with  unqualified  statements  and 
hazardous  guesses,  is  none  the  less  most  suggestive,  and  contains 
as  satisfactory  an  account  of  what  may  have  happened  to  anil 
through  John  Cabot  as  any  contribution  to  the  anniversary  litera- 
ture. With  the  confident  assurance  of  a  mature  man,  who  has 
dealt  with  many  men,  and  unhampered  by  the  preconceptions  of 
the  historian's  traditions.  Lord  Dufferin  reconstrudfed  in  outline 
the  career  of  Cabot  in  a  way  that  is  both  plausible  and  not  notice- 
ably inconsistent  with  the  authoritative  sources.  This  estimate 
of  Lord  DufFerin's  article  may  profitably  be  compared  with  that  of 
Mr.  Harrisse,  No.  396,  and  of  Dr.  Dawson  in  the  Revieiv  of 
Historical  Publications  relating  to  CanaJa,  1897, — Toronto,  1898,  ii. 
34-35- 

DUFFERIN  AND  AVA  (Marquis  of)  The  Cabot 
Memorial  at  Bristol.  (339) 

In  T/ie  Times, — London,  25  June,  1897,  and  in  other  London  and 
Bristol  newspapers  of  the  same  date. 

Lord  Dufferin,  as  chairman  of  the  committee  organized  to  raise 
funds  and  ereft  at  Bristol  a  Cabot  Memorial  Tower,  delivered  an 
address  at  the  laying  of  the  corner  stone,  in  which  he  made  the 
first  public  announcement  of  the  discovery  of  the  "  Cabot  Roll," 
described  under  Kemys,  No.  151. 

Lord  Dufferin's  remarks  at  the  formal  opening  of  the  Tower,  6 
September,  1898,  were  fully  reported  in  the  IVestern  Daily  Press, — 
Bristol,  7  September,  1898.  (34°) 

A  leader  in  the  London  Times  for  25  June,  1897,  on  "The 
Cabot  Memorial,"  is  interesting  as  an  indication  of  the  preconcep- 
tions with  which  the  ordinary  well-informed  Englishman  regards 
the  period  of  discovery.  (341 

EAMES   (Wilberforce). 

See  notes  under  Dufferin  and  Ava,  No.  338,  and  Sabin,No. 
519- 


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ERRERA  (Carlo)  I  viaggi  di  Giovanni  e  di  Scbastiano 
Caboto  neir  Atlantico  Settentrionale.  Considerazioni 
critiche  di  Carlo  Errera.  (342) 

In  the  Bollettino  della  Societd  Geografica  Italiana, — Roma,  May, 
1893,  3rd  series,  vi.  (xxx.),  387-4.14.     Also  issued  separately. 

A  careful  and  intelligent  study  of  Tarducci  and  Harrisse, 
from  whose  evidence  he  deduces  a  strong  case  in  favour  of  a  voyage 
by  Sebastian  Cabot  in  1509. 

In  a  note,  pp.  751-752  of  the  same  volume,  Dr.  Errera  calls 
attention  to  the  evidence  contained  in  the  report  of  Contarini, 
No.  80,  confirmatory  of  his  argument  for  the  1509  voyage.    (34-2') 

ERRERA  (Carlo)  La  spedizione  di  Sebastiano  Caboto 
al  rio  della  Plata.  (343) 

In  the  Archivio  Storico  Italiano, — Firenze,  1895,  5th  series,  xv. 
1-62.     Also  issued  separately. 
A  study  of  Tarducci  and  Madero. 

The  titi  of  several  recent  Italian  essays  upon  Cabotian  subjefts, 
which  have  been  communicated  to  this  bibliography  by  Dr.  Errera, 
are  signed  by  his  initials  and  a  reference  to  this  note.  (3+3*) 

ERRIZO   (Francesco  Miniscalchi). 

See  No.  4.59. 

ESPADA   (Juan  de   la)     Demostracion  del  mapa-mundi 

de  Sebastian  Caboto.  (344) 

This  title  is  quoted  by  S"".  Fernandez  Duro  in  a  list  of  Spanish 
maps  and  manuscripts,  printed  in  his  Area  de  Not', — Madrid,  1881, 
p.  538.  He  gives  th(  reference  :  Bibliot.  part,  de  S.  M. — J.  de  la 
Espada — Relac.  geog.  pagina  131. 

FERNANDEZ     DURO    (CesAreo)     Los   Ojos   en    el 

Cielo.      Libro  cuarto   de   las   Disquisiciones  Nauticas — 

Madrid  1879.  (345) 

8vo.    T  -f  pp  5-4.45. 

There  is  a  description  of  the  Cabot  1544  map  on  p.  278. 


FERNANDEZ  DURO  (CesAreo)    ArcadeNoe. 
Sexto    de    las    Disquisiciones    Nauticas — Madrid 


Libro 
1881. 

(346) 

8vo.     T  -^  pp  5-680  +  map. 

Sebastian  Cabot,  and  his  place  in  nautical  history,  are  mentioned 
on  pp.  314,  342,  521,  538. 


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(343) 
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Dr.  Errera, 

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(344) 

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FERNANDEZ    DURO   (CesXreo)     Los  Cabotos  Juan 
y   Sebastian    descubridores  en  el   continente  Americano. 

(347) 

In  the  BoUtin  de  la  Sociedad  Geografica, — Madrid,  January-March, 
1893,  xxxiv.  69-91. 
Sec  Tarducci,  No.  541. 

FERNANDEZ   DURO   (Cesareo)     Los  Cabotos.  (348) 

In  the  Boletin  de  la  Real  Academia  de  la  Historia, — Madrid, 
March,  1893,  xxii.  257-282. 

A  summary  of  Harrisse,  Bellemo,  Tarducci,  and  tspecially 
Madero.  Captain  Duro  develops  the  suggestion  that  the  diffi- 
culties into  which  Cabot  was  lirawn  during  his  La  Plata  expedition 
grew  out  of  the  jealousy  of  the  Spanish  pilots  and  cartographers, 
who  felt  injured  by  the  fafl  that  they  were  serving  under  a  foreigner. 

According  to  Prowse,  No.  4.90,  p.  30,  Captain  Duro  "  brands 

Sebastian  as  a  traitor  to  Spain  "  in  a  review  of  Madi :ko,  No.  4.4.3, 

in  La  Espana  Moderna,— Madrid,  1892.  (3+9) 

Captain  Duro's  article  on  La  Cosa's  map  of  i  500  is  mentioned 

in  the  notes  to  No.  84^ 

FERNANDES   PINHEIRO   (Joaquim  Caetano). 

The  Spanish  version  of  Southey's  Brazil  is  desrribed  in  the 
notes  to  No.  528. 

FISKE    (John)     The   discovery   of  America    with    some 

account  of  ancient  America  and  the  Spanish  conquest  by 

John  Fiske — Boston  mdcccxcii  (35°) 

8vo.     2   volumes.     T    -f-   pp  iii-xxxvi   +    S'6;    T    -f    pp  iii- 

xxiv  -J-  631  +4  maps.     Also  issued,  250  copies,  on  large  paper 

in  four  volumes. 

A  good  summary  of  what  was  accomplished  by  the  Cabots, 
closely  following  Harrisse,  No.  383,  is  in  chapter  vii.,  ii.  1-17. 

FLEMING  (Sandford)  Expeditions  to  the  Pacific.  With 
a  brief  reference  to  the  Voyages  of  Discovery  in  seas  con- 
tiguous to  Canada,  in  connection  vv^ith  a  Western  Passage 
from  Europe  to  Asia.     By  Sandford  Fleming.  (350 

In  the  TransaSlions  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada, —  Montreal, 
1890,  vii.  se6t.  ii.  89-141  +  map.     Also  issued  separately. 

In  the  winter  of  1895-96,  Sir  Sandford  Fleming  and  Sir  Mac- 
kenzie Bowell  made  an  informal  trip  to  England  for  the  purpose, 
among  others,  of  arousing  interest  and  securing  English  co-opera- 
tion in  the  proposed  Canadian  celebration  of  the  Cabot  quadri- 
centennial.     Sir   Sandford    made    an    address    before    the    Royal 

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Colonial  Institute,  y  June,  1896,  which  was  printed  in  its  Pro- 
ceedings,  xxvii.  398-4.22,  and  was  widely  circulated  in  separate  form. 
He  also  spoke  at  the  dinner  mentioned  in  the  note  under  Bristol, 
No.  281.  (352) 

FORSTER   (JoHANN  Rein-hold)     Geschichte   der  Ent- 

deckungen    und    Schiffahrten   im  Nordcn.      Mit    neuen 

Originalkarten  versehen.     Von  Johann  Reinhold  Forster. 

— Franckfurt  an  der  Oder  1784.  (353) 

8vo.     Pp  xxiv  (including  title)  +  596  +  (2)  +  3  maps. 

Reissued,  with  a  new,  undated  title,  giving  a  Berlin  imprint, 

the  author's  name  being  given  as  J.  H.  Forster.     Translated  into 

English, — London,   1786;  T    +   3  pp  +  xvi  +  4.89  +  8  U   +    3 

maps,  4to  :  reprinted  with  Dublin  imprint,  the  collation  being  the 

same,  but  the  format  in  8vo.     There  is  also  a  French  edition. 

The  account  of  Cabot  in  this  important  work,  which  exerted  a 
considerable  influence  at  the  time  of  its  appearance,  is  on  pp.  310- 
313,  or  266-269  of  the  English  edition. 

FOSTER  (William  Eaton)  Early  english  explora- 
tions of  America.     A.  The  vo)'ages  of  the  Cabots,  1497- 

98-  (354) 

In  the  Monthly  Reference  Lists,  prepared  by  the  Librarian  of  the 
Providence  Public  Library, — Nenu  Tf'ork,  August,  1884,  iv.  27-28. 
A  s)>ort  annotated  bibliography  of  the  more  accessible  books. 

FOX  (Luke)  North-west  fox,  or,  Fox  from  the  North, 
west  passage.  Beginning  With  King  Arthvr,  Malga- 
Odthvr,  the  two  Zeni's  of  Iseland,  Estotiland,  and  Dorgia  ; 
Following  with  briefe  Abstracts  of  the  Voyages  of  Cabot, 
Frobisher  .  .  .  With  the  Author  his  owne  Voyage,  being 
the  xvi"'.  with  the  opinions  and  Colleftions  of  the  most 
famous  Ma-thematicians,  and  Cosmographers  ;  .  .  .  By 
Captaine    Lvke  Fox   of  Kingstone  vpon  Hull — London 

1635.  (355) 

Small  4to.  T  +  5  II  +  pp  1-256  +  map  :  see  the  elaborate 
collation  in  No.  356,  p.  cxxvij. 

The  Cabot  narratives,  op.  13-16,  are  derived  from  Hakluyt. 
Reprinted  in  : 

FOX  (Luke)  The  voyages  of  Captain  Luke  Foxe  of 
Hull,  and  Captain  Thomas  James  of  Bristol,  in  search  of 
a  north-west  passage,  in  1631-32  ;  with  narratives  of  the 
ea.'-lier  north-west  voyages.  .  .  .  Edited,  with  Notes  and  an 


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Introduction,  by  Miller  Christy — London^   Hakluyt   So- 
ciety, M.DCCC.xcvi.  (356) 
8vo.     2  volumes.     4  T  ;  pp  v-xvi  +  ccxxxi  +  681  +  viii  +  5 
maps  +  3  plates. 

FRANKS   (Augustus  Wollaston). 
See  note  to  No.  237. 

FREEDMAN   (John  J.). 

See  Truax,  No.  553.  Justice  Freedman  concurred  in  the 
opinion  of  Justice  Truax. 

FUMAGALLI  (Giuseppe)  Bibliografia  degli  scritti  italiani 
o  stampati  in  Italia  sopra  Cristoforo  Colombo  la  scoperta 
del  nuovo  mondo  e  i  viaggi  degli  italiani  in  America  com- 
pilata  da  Giuseppe  Fumagalli  con  la  collaborazione  di 
Pietro  Amat  di  S.  Filippo — Roma  M  dccc  xciii.         (358) 

Folio.     2  T  4-  pp  vii-xxi  +  217. 

Pait  VI.  in  the  Raccolta  di  documenti  e  studi  pubblicati  dalla  R. 
Commissione  colombiana. 

Giovanni  Caboto,  Nos.  1080-1093,  pp.  169-171  ;  valuable  for 
references  to  recent  Italian  publications. 

GANONG  (William  Francis)  The  Cartography  of 
the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence,  from  Cartier  to  Champiain. 
By  W.  F.  Ganong.  (359) 

In  the  TransaSIions  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada, — Montreal, 
1890,  vii.  sed^ion  ii.  17-58.     Also  issued  separately. 

The  discussion  of  the  cartographical  questions  arising  from  a 
study  of  the  Cabot  1544.  map  and  other  similar  maps,  pp.  35-37 
and  43-49,  is  important  for  the  identification  of  the  Isle  St.  John 
on  the  Cabot  map  with  the  Magdalene  group. 

GARDENER  (Henry)  New-Englands  vindidation  [sic]. 
Shewing  the  Mis-understanding  of  the  apprehension  To 
take  all  that  vast  Countrey  under  the  Notion  of  a  par- 
ticular place  of  one  Pattent  of  Boston,  the  Metro-politan 
of  the  Machechusets  there  ...  By  Henry  Gardener 
Merchant,  whose  Fa-thcr  was  one  of  the  first  Adventurers 
thither,  and  into  other  parts  of  America — London^  Printed 
for  the  Authour,  1660.  (360) 

Small  4to.     T  -H  i  1  +  PP  1-8. 

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no  Title  to  that  vast  Enipire,from  New-found-land  to  Cape-Florida  : 
some  such  there  be ;  .  .  .  i^  gainst  all.  His  Majesties  Right  in 
those  parts,  is  I.  By  Discovery  from  Henry  the  7th  time,  by  Sebas- 
tian Cabott,  for  which  he  had  a  Pentionof  200  Marks  per  annum." 
There  is  a  note  to  this  "  stumbling  block  of  all  historians  "  in 
the  Gorges  Society  reprint  of  this  traft,  edited  by  Dr.  C.  E.  Banks 
— Portland,  Maine,  1884  :  small  4to,  facsimile  T  +  T  4-  pp  5-83. 
See  p.  17  for  references  to  Doyle,  d'Avezac,  Strachey  and 
Thevet.  (361) 

GAY   (Sidney  Howard). 

See  Bryant,  No.  288,  for "  Bryant  and  Gay's  Popular  History," 
a  large  part  of  which  was  written  by  Mr.  Gay. 


GEORGE  (William) 


Sebastian  Cabot  and  Richard  Eden. 

(.362) 

In  Notes  and  S^ueries, — London,  27  March,  1858,  2nd  series,  v. 
263. 
See  Lucas,  No.  439,  and  Markland,  No.  455. 
This  communication  was  followed  by  a  spirited  controversy  be- 
tween Mr.  George  and  Mr.  Pryce,  No.  498,  in  the  Bristol  news- 
papers for  March,  April,  and  May,  1858,  in  regard  to  the  evidence 
that  Sebastian  Cabot  was  born  in  Bristol.  (363) 

GEORGE    (William)     The  portrait  of  Sebastian  Cabot. 

(364) 

In  the  Times  and  Mirror, — Bristol,  3  November,  1869.  Re- 
printed, with  the  omission  of  the  writer's  name  and  of  the  closing 
paragraph  which  mentions  the  historical  works  of  Mr.  Biddle,  in 
the  Daily  Post, — Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  18  December,  1869.  From 
this  it  was  copied  into  the  Historical  Magazine  for  November,  1 869, 
2nd  series,  vi.  306-307. 

This  was  apparently  the  first  public  announcement  in  England 
of  the  destruction  of  the  Harford-Biddle  portrait  of  Cabot,  No.  61, 
in  1845. 

The  discovery  that  the  portrait  of  Cabot  could  hardly  have  been 
painted  by  Holbein  was  largely  due  to  the  researches  of  Mr.  George  ; 
see  note  under  Nicholls,  No.  468. 


GEORGE   (William) 
Sebastian  Cabot. 


The  History  of  the  Portrait  of 

(365) 

In  the  Transa£iions  of  the  Bristol  and  Gloucestershire  Arcliaeo- 
logicai  Society,  1879,  "'•  19-21  +  plate.  The  plate  is  an  im- 
pression from  the  original  plate  of  Seyer's  engraving  from  the 
Harford  portrait,  see  No.  522. 

See  note  to  Perry,  No.  478. 


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GODWYN  (Morgan)  Annales  of  England.  Contain- 
ing the  Reignes  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  Edward  the  Sixt, 
Queene  Mary.  Written  in  Latin  by  the  Right  Honor- 
aible  and  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  Francis  Lord 
Bishop  of  Hereford,  Thus  Englished,  corredled  and  inlar- 
ged  with  the  Author's  consent,  by  Morgan  Godwyn — 
London  1630.  (3^6) 

Small  folio.     T  +  6  II  +  PP  1-34.2. 


Willoughby's  voyage,  set  forth  by 
gall,"  is  described  under  1553,  p.  259. 


Sebastian  Cabota  a  Portu- 


GRAVIERE  (JuRiEN  de  la). 

See  JURIEN  DE  LA  Gravi^re,  No.  425. 

GREENE   (Jeremiah  Evarts). 

Mr.  Greene's  report  to  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  upon 
the  Cabotsand  thequadricentennial  celebration  at  Halifax  in  1897, 
is  in  the  Proceedings  of  that  Society  for  21  October,  1897, — Worcester^ 
1898,9-12.  (367) 

GRIFFIS  (William  Elliot)  The  Romance  of  Dis- 
covery A  Thousand  Years  of  Exploration  and  the  Un- 
veiling of  Continents  by  William  Elliot  Griffis — Boston 

(368) 
8vo.     2  T  -I-  PP  s-304  +  plates. 

Written  at  the  request  of  his  publishers  in  the  year  of  the  Cabot 
quadricentennial.     John  Cabot,  105-111. 

GRISELINI   (Francesco). 

The  Venetian  portrait  of  the  Cabots,  which  is  said  to  have  been 
painted  by  the  Abbe  Griselini  in  1763,  is  mentioned  in  a  note 
under  John  Cabot,  No.  20. 

HAEBLER   (Konrad)     Die  "  Neuwe  Zeitung  aus  Presilg- 

Land "   im    Fiirstlich    Fugger'schen    Archiv.    Von    Dr. 

Konrad  Haebler.  (369) 

In  the  Zeitschrifi  der  Geselhchaft  fur  Erdkunde  xu  Berlin,  1895, 

XXX.  352-368. 

Among  the  foreign  ventures  entereu  into  by  the  commercial 
house  of  the  Fuggers,  through  their  representatives  in  Spain,  which 
are  described  in  this  article,  was  Sebastian  Cabot's  Molucca  (-La 
Plata)  expedition  of  1526.  Dr.  Haebler  quotes,  p.  368,  two  sig- 
nificant entries  from  the  account  books  of  the  Fuggers,  reading  : 

Sebastiano  gabato  Cosmographo  hat  im  Sebastian  khurz  gelihen, 


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dem  er  ain  mappa  mundi  machcn  soUen,  <las  aber  nit  geschehen, 
noch  wir  soldi  geldt  aut"  vnser  vilteltig  fordern  von  jm  einbringe" 
kluinden,  halten  es  fiir  verlorn.  mrs.  2250.  (369*) 

Seb.  Gobeto  cosmographo.  DatVir  hat  er  inest  ain  carta  de  marear 
machen  sollen,  so  aber  hernachmals  nit  beschehen,  v-nnd  ist  d'ser 
jar  in  Engeiandt  zogen,  wissen  nit  ob  er  noch  bcileben  ist,  odernit. 
mrs.  2250,  hat  Jorg  Stecher  geliehen.  (3^9'') 

HAKES  (Harry)  John  and  Sebastian  Cabot,  a  four 
hundredth  anniversary  memorial  of  the  discovery  of 
America,  by  Harry  Hakes,  M.D.  .  .  .  Read  before  the 
Wyoming  Historical  and  Geological  Society,  June  24th 
1897.  Prepared  at  the  request  and  published  by  the 
Society — IVilkes-Barre,  Penn'a.  1897.  (37°) 

8vo.     Cover  +  T  +  pp  3-14. 

HALE    (Edward    Everett)      Report   of  the   Council. 

(37O 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  21 
Odlober,  1865, — Cambridge,  1866,  14.-53. 

••  The  influence  wrought  in  English  society  and  literature  by  the 
discovery  and  first  colonization  ot  this  continent  ;  "  the  Cabot  dis- 
covery, 19-30. 

Dr.  Hale  first  called  public  attention  to  the  Fabyan  Cronicon, 
No.  105,  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society 
for  25  April,  i860,  36-38.  (37*) 

HALE  (Edward  Everett)  Remarksof  the  Rev.  Edvard 
E.  Hale  on  Mr.  Bergenroth's  Letter.  (373) 

In  the   Proceeding;    jf  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  24 
April,  1867, — Cambridg/y  1867,  38-42. 
See  note  under  Ayala,  No.  7*. 


HALIBURTON  (Thomas  C.)  An  historical  and  sta- 
tistical account  of  Nova-Scotia,  ...  by  Thomas  C. 
Haliburton — Haiifax  1829.  (374) 

8vo.  2  volumes.  T  +  pp  iii-vi  •\-  340  +  viil  +  map  -H  2  plates  j 
T  +  pp  453  -1-  iii  +  2  tables  ■\-  6  plates  -f  map. 

An  undated  reprint,  with  the  imprint  Halifax,  is  said  to  have 
been  published  in  London.  This  edition  contains  3  maps  and  8 
plates. 

It  is  stated  on  pp.  2-5  that  the  Cabot  landfall  is  generally  sup- 
posed to  have  been  at  Trinity  Bay,  Nova  Scotia. 


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HALIFAX,   NOVA   SCOTIA. 

The  Royal  Society  of  Canada  held  its  1897  meeting  at  Halifax 
on  June  21-25,  '"  special  recognition  ot  the  Cabot  quatlricentennial. 
The  official  report  of  this  meeting  is  described  below  under  Royal 
Society,  No.  510.  The  Halifax  local  papers,  the  Herald  and 
E<vening  Mail,  anil  the  Morning  Chronicle,  gave  extended  and  very 
satisfaftory  reports  of  the  Cabot  proceedings  in  their  issues  for 
25  June,  1897,  the  first  two  making  this  a  special  Cabot  number  : 
see  Piers,  Prowse,  and  Ross.  The  Herald  rapport  was  reprinted 
in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada,  1897,  xciii-ciii. 

(375) 

HAMERSLEY   (J.  Hooker)    John  Cabot,  Discoverer  of 

the  North  American  Continent.  (37^) 

In  the  Century  Magazine, — Neiv  York,  May,  1897,  liv.  154. 

The  writer  of  this  "open  letter"  derived  his  enthusiasm  for  the 

celebration  of  the  Cabot  quadricentennial  from  a  comparison  of  the 

184.1  and  1862  editions  of  Bancroft,  No.  248. 

HANNAY   (James)     The  history  of  Acadia,  from  its  first 

discovery  to  its  surrender  to  England  by  the  Treaty  of 

Paris,  by  James  Hannay — St,  Johns^  N.B.  1879.      (377) 

8vo.     T  4-  PP  iii-viii  •\-  440. 

The  Cabot  landfall  is  assigned  to  Newfoundland,  3-6. 

HARFORD  (Charles  Joseph). 

See  notes  under  Cabot,  No.  61,  and  Mathews,  No.  456.  The 
latter  volume  contains,  pp.  23-38,  the  verses  written  by  Mr.  Har- 
ford to  Sir  Frederick  Eden,  as  if  from  Sebastian  Cabot,  reciting 
"  What  happened  unto  me,"  in  response  to  which  the  original  por- 
trait was  presented  to  Mr.  Harford.  (378) 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  Bibliotheca  Americana  Vetustissima 
a  description  of  works  relating  to  America  published  be- 
tween the  years  1492  and  155 1 — New  York^  mdccclxvi. 

(381) 
4to.     2  T  +  2  11  +  PP  Iv  +  519. 

"  Several  overlooked  authorities  concerning  Cabot's  memorable 
voyage"  are  noted  on  pp.  59-60, 

A  supplementary  volume  has  a  title  as  above,  adding  : 

Additions— Pflrw,  M.nccc.LXXii.  (382) 

4to.     2  T  +  PP  xl  +  199. 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  Jean  et  Sebastien  Cabot  leur 
origine  et  leurs   voyages  etude  d'histoire  critique  suivie 


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d'une  cartographic,  d'une  bibliographic  ct  d'une  chrono- 
logit  des  voyages  au  nord-ouest  de  1497  a  1550  d'apres 
des  docuriicnts  inedits  par  Henry  Harrisse  —  Paris 
M.D.ccc.Lxxxii  (383) 

Large  8vo.     2  T  +  pp  400  +  rnap. 

No.  I  in  the  "  Recueil  de  voyages  et  de  documents  pour  servir  a 
rhistoire  de  la  geographic  Depuis  le  xiii"  jusvju'a  la  fin  du  xvio 
siecle  public  Sous  la  direflion  de  MM.  Ch.  Schefer  et  Henri 
Cordicr." 

The  map  is  in  colours,  from  a  facsimile  of  the  C  ibot  1544  map 
made  by  S.  Pilinski.  Measuring  is|X9|  inches,  or  39  +  16.3 
cmm.,  it  gives  about  half  of  the  North  Atlantic,  showing  the 
European  and  American  coasts. 

The  introduflory  text,  which  should  be  compared  with  No.  387 
for  an  illustration  of  how  the  author's  conclusions  were  modified 
by  further  study  and  long-continuedconsiderationof  the  real  mean- 
ing of  the  sources,  is  followed  by  : 

Notes  pour  servir  a  une  classification  des  oeuvres  cartographique 
de  la  premiere  moitie  du  xvi°  siecle  concernant  PAmerique  septen- 
trionale  ;  139-252.  Much  of  the  information  here  given  is  not 
repeated  in  No.  385.  (383*) 

Chronologic;  255-306.  (iSs**) 

Appendices,  containing  the  original  text  of  all  the  Cabot  sources 
of  which  Mr.  Harrisse  was  aware  m  1882  ;  309-366.  (383'') 

Bibliographic.  "  Nous  n'avons  insere  dans  cette  bibliographic 
que  les  ouvrages  :  1°  concernant  les  Cabot  ecrits  par  leurs  contem- 
porains  ;  1"  consacres  exclusivement  a  ces  navigateurs  ;  3°  conte- 
nant  des  assertions  ou  des  indications  qui  ne  se  trouvcnt  pas  aillcurs.'* 
Arranged  chronologically.  (383'') 

HARRISSE   (Henry)    Christophe  Colomb  son  origine,  sa 

vie,   ses   voyages,   sa   famille   &  scs   descendants  d'apres 

des    documents    inedits    par    Henry    Harrisse  —  Paris 

M.D.ccc.Lxxxiv.  (384) 

Large  8vo,     2  volumes.     2  T  +  pp  v-xi  -J-  459  :  2  T  -f-  pp  5- 

605  +  3  plates  +  2  maps  4-  5  tables. 

No.  vi.  in  the  "  Recueil  de  Voyages  de  MM.  Schefer  et  Cordier." 
"  Prioritc  de  la  decouverte  du  continent  .  .  .  Les  droits  de  Jean 
Cabot,"  ii.  104-111,  analyses  the  evidence  for  the  dates  1496  and 
H97. 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  The  Discovery  of  North  America 
a  critical,  documentary,  and  historic  investigation,  with 
An  Essay  on  the  Early  Cartography  of  the  New  World, 
including  Descriptions  of  Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Maps 
or  Globes  existing  or  lost,  construded  before  the  year 


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Voyages  Westward,  Projected,  Attempted,  or  Accom- 
plished between  143 1  and  1504-  Biographical  Accounts 
of  the  Three  Hundred  Pilots  who  first  crossed  the  Atlantic; 
and  a  Copious  List  of  the  Original  Names  of  American 
Regions,  Caciqueships,  Mountains,  Isbnds,  Capes,  Gulfs, 
Rivers,  Towns,  and  Harbours.  By  Henry  Harrisse — 
London^  Henry  Stevens  and  Son,  Paris.  H.  Welter,  1892. 

{385) 
4.10.  i  T  4-  pp  v-xii  +  803  4*  23  plates.  380  copies  issued. 
"The  First  Voyage  of  John  Cabot,  1497.  The  Claims  of  Sebas- 
tian Cabot.  The  Second  Voyage  of  John  Cabot,  1498-1490  (?)," 
1-50.  America  believed  to  be  distinft  from  Asia;  opinions  of 
John  Cabot,  107.108.  Contemporary  references  to  mar>s  by  John 
Cabot,  406-408.  Biographical  outline  of  Sebastian  Cabot's  career, 
706-708.     Drapers'  Company  accounts,  No.  94,  747-750. 

HARRJSSE  (Henry)  Sebastien  Cabot,  navigateur  v^ne- 
tien.  (386) 

In  Drapeyron,  Revue  de  Geographie, — Pfln"/,  November,  1894- 
March,  1895,  xxxv.  381-388,  474-481,  xxxvi.  16-23,  97-104,  200- 
207.     Also  issued  separately. 

A  review  of  Tarducci,  No.  539.     Signed  B.  A.  V. 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  John  Cabot  the  discoverer  of  North 
America  and  Sebastian  his  Son  a  chapter  of  the  maritime 
history  of  England  under  the  Tudors  1496-1557  By 
Henry  Harrisse — London^  B.  F.  Stevens,  1896.  (387) 

8vo.     2  T  -|-  pp  v-xi  4-  503  +  3  maps  and  facsimiles. 
'*  Syllabus  of  the  original  contemporary  documents  which  refer  to 
the  Cabots,  to  their  lives,  and  to  their  voyages,  1496- 1557,"  385* 

Reviewed  in  the  Saturday  Revievj, — London,  Ixxxi.  255-256,  and 
elsewhere  as  noted  under  the  reviewers'  names. 

A  translation  into  Spanish  of  the  portions  of  chapters  v.-xi.  which 
deal  direftly  with  Cabot's  La  Plata  expedition,  by  S'.  Lafone 
C^UEVEDO,  ■    described  as  No.  -130*. 

This  work,  the  real  culni...ation  of  Mr.  Harrisse's  Cabotian 
studies,  is  not  a  history ;  it  is  rather  a  laboratory  manual,  in  which 
the  student  finds  revealed  each  step  of  the  processes  through  which 
the  material  of  history  haj  been  forced,  in  order  that  it  might  be 
made  to  render  up  the  truth  which  was  concealed  within  it.  The 
subjefl  is  peculiarly  suited  to  the  method  of  treatment  adopted  by 
Mr.  Harrisse — a  treatment  peculiarly  adapted  to  his  personal  strength 
as  an  investigator  of  historical  problems.     His  labours  have  been 


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of  inestimable  service  in  making  possible,  by  succieding  \vriter>  of 
history,  a  charaftcrizaticn  otthc  work  and  the  charaiUr  of  Sebas- 
tian Cabot  which  shall  be  fair  to  human  nature  and  true  to  the 
fafls  of  history.  His  magnificent  services  as  investigator  and  as 
student  have  transformed  one  of  the  most  perplexing  proi)lems  of 
colonial  history  into  one  of  those  most  easily  understood. 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  When  did  John  Cabot  discover 
North  America  ?  (388) 

In  The  Forum, — Neiu  York,  June,  1897,  xxiii.  463-475. 
Issued  separately,  with  a  postscript,  as  : 

John  Cabot's  discovery  of  North  Amnica  :  the  alleged  date  and 
land  fall.  (388") 

8vo.     Cover  +  14  pp. 
Reprinted  in  : 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  The  discovery  of  North  America 
by  John  Cabot,  the  alleged  date  and  landfall  also  the 
ship's  name,  the  "  Matthew,"  a  forgery  of  Chatterton  .? 
Third  edition,  revised  and  enlarged. — London^  B.  F. 
Stevens,  June  1897.  (389) 

izmo.     T  -^-  pp  3-48  +  I  p.  errata. 

The  first  issue  of  this  edition  was  suppressed,  in  order  that  the 
mathematical  correflions  might  be  embodied  in  the  text.  It  was 
reprinted  without  the  page  of  errata,  but  with  a  slip  at  p.  30.  The 
algebraic  refutation  was  revised,  enlarged,  and  completed  in  No. 
393  :  see  notes  under  Dawson,  No.  318,  and  the  Re'vieiu  of  His- 
torical Fublications  relating  to  Canada, — Toronto,  1898,  ii.  32-43. 

HARRISSE   (Henry)    John  Cabot  and  the  Matthew. 

(390) 

In  Notes  and  S^eries, — London,  26  June  and  14  August,  1897, 
8th  series,  xi.  501-502,  and  xii.  129-132. 

The  first  of  these  communications  was  reprinted  iti  No.  389,  pp. 
39-47.     The  second  was  issued  separately,  as  : 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  The  date  of  Cabot's  discovc-y  of 
the  American  continent,  and  an  alleged  forgery  of  Chatter- 
ton.  A  rejoinder  by  Mr.  Henry  Harrisse — London,  B.  V. 
Stevens,  1897.  (39°') 

i2mo.    T  +  pp  3-12. 

The  other  side  of  this  controversy  is  described  under  Prowse, 
Nos.  493-494,  and  Weare,  No.  561. 


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HARRISSE      (Henry)       Scbastien    Cabot     pilote-major 

d'Espagne  considcrc  comme  cartographc.  (39') 

In   Drapeyron,  Refue  Je  Geographic^ — Parii,  June  and  July, 
1897,  xl.  401-+08,  xli.  36-43.     Also  issued  separately. 
See  the  note  on  the  Cabot  maps,  No.  39*. 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  Stbasticn  Cabot  pilote-major 
d'Espagne  considcrc  comme  navigateur.  (39^) 

In  Drapeyron,  Re-vue  Je  Geoi^raphie, — Pflr//,  November,  1897, 
xli.  3*1-335.     Also  issued  separately. 

This  is  a  summary  of  Mr.  Hariisse's  latest  conclusions  rcspefting 
the  mismanagement  of  the  La  Plata  expedition  ;  with  translations 
from  portions  of  the  Spanish  documents  which  have  not  yet  been 
published. 

HARRISSE   (Henry)     L'atterrage  de  Cabot  au  continent 

americain.     Par  Henri  Harrisse.  (393) 

In  the  Nachrichten  of  the  Koniglichen  Gesellschaft  der  Wissen- 
schaften  zu  GiJttingen,  Philologisch-historische  Klassc, — Gottingen, 
1897,  pp.  326-348.     Also  issued  separately. 

HARRISSE  (Henry)  The  diplomatic  history  of  America 
its  first  chapter  1452-1493-1494  by  Henry  Harrisse — 
London,  B.  F.  Stevens,  1897.  (394) 

izmo.     2  T  +  map  -f  1  11  4-  pp  230. 

The  weak  points  in  the  evidence  which  has  been  said  to  show 
that  Henry  VII.  of  England  disregarded  the  supposititious  papal 
right  to  divide  the  world  between  Spain  and  Portugal,  when  Cabot 
was  commissioned  in  1497,  are  noticed  on  pp.  45-48. 


HARRISSE   (Henry) 


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? 


Did  Cabot  return  from  his  second 

(395) 


In  the  Americitt  Historical  Rei>ii'LV, — Nezv  York,  April,  1898,  iii. 
449-455.     Also  is.sued  separately. 

An  examination  of  No.  151,  of  which  it  is  said  that  it  "strongly 
tends  to  prove  that  John  Cabot  did  return  from  his  last  voyage 
before  September  29,  1498,  and  that  he  was  still  living  after  the 
latter  date." 

HAR2ISSE  (Henry)    The  Outcome  of  the  Cabot  Quater- 

Centenary.  (39^) 

In  the  American  Historical  Re'vie^M, — Nenu  York,  06lober,  1898, 
iv.  38-61.     Also  issued  separately. 
This  is  apparently  the  pamphlet  announced  in  the  list  of  Mr. 


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Harrissc's  publications  at  the  end  of  No.  394,  as  "Reprint  of  an 
article  published  in  the  North  American  Re'vieiv."  It  is  a  char- 
afterixticexpresHiun  ot  his  opinions,  as  drawn  out  by  hisexainination 
of  the  essays  described  under  Dawson,  Dufferin,  Lodge,  and 
Markham.  His  survey  of  the  whole  question  ends  with  the 
declaration  that  "  it  is  proved  beyond  cavil  and  sophistry  that 
Sebastian  Cabot  was  only  an  unmitigated  charlatan,  a  mendacious 
and  unfilial  boaster,  a  would-be  traitor  to  Spain,  a  would-be  traitor 
to  England." 


HARRISSE   (Henry)     The  Cabots. 


(397) 


In  the  TransailioHS  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada, — Otttnva, 
1898,  2nd  series,  iv.  sec.  ii.  103-106. 

Notes  addressed  to  the  Royal  Society  0  '  Canada  in  reflification 
of  some  statements  in  papers  contribute'  by  Mr.  S.  E.  Dawson, 
Nos.  3 1 6-320  j  presented  by  Sir  John  B</urinot  and  read  May  25, 
1898. 

HART  (Albert  Bushnell). 

See  No.  134}  and  Channing,  No.  302. 

HARVEY  (Moses)  The  voyages  and  discoveries  of  the 
Cabots,  by  the  Rev.  M.  Harvey,  of  St.  John's,  Newfound- 
land. (398) 

In  the  ColUflionSf  1893-1895,  of  the  Nova  Scotia  Historical 
Society, — Halifax,  1895,  ix.  17-37. 

One  of  the  earliest  suggestions  of  the  reasons  for  celebrating  the 
Cabot  Quadricentennial.  See  the  Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Society 
of  Canada, — Ottazva,  1895,  xii.  xvi-xvii,  for  an  abstract  of  Dr. 
Harvey's  letter  advocating  this  celebration.  A  second  letter,  dated 
5  May,  1896,  is  printed  in  the  Proceedings,  R.S.C.f  1896,  xiii.  pp. 
xxvi-xxviii ;  see  Dawson,  No.  318,  pp.  ix-xi.  (398') 

A  Review  of  Dawoon,  No.  317,  by  Dr.  Harvey,  was  printed  in 
the  Gazette, — Montreal,  30  July,  1855.  (399) 

The  •'  Address  at  the  Laying  of  the  Foundation  Stone  of  the 
Cabot  Memorial  Tower,  Signal  Hill,  June  22nd,  1897,  By  the 
Rev'd  M.  Harvey  "  was  printed  in  the  Evening  Herald, — ir.  John's, 
Ne-iufoundland,  25  June,  1897.  (400) 

HARVEY  (Moses)  Newfoundland  in  1897  being  Queen 
Viftoria's  Diamond  Jubilee  Year  and  the  four  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  discovery  of  the  Island  by  John  Cabot 
— London^  Sampson  Low,  1897.  (40O 

i2mo.     T  -4-  pp  iii-xiv  -f  203  -f  map  -f  24  plates. 

Dr.  Harvey  was  the  author  of  a  Text  Book  of  Neiufoundland  His- 


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tory,  published  in  Boston,  1885.  This  was  revised  and  enlarged  in 
a  second  edition,  /I  Short  History  of  NnvJounUlanJ, — London  and 
Giasgonv,  1890.  This  was  i'o\\owti\hy  NtavJounJlanJ as  it  is,  lig^., 
A  handbook  and  Tourists'  Guide, — London,  Kegan  Paul,  1 894.  Each 
of  these  works  contains  various  statements  t.'garding  Cabot's  dis- 
covery of  the  island.  (40'*) 
See  Hatton,  No.  403. 

HASSALL  fARTHUR). 

See  note  under  Beazley,  No.  257. 

HATTON  (Joseph)  and  HARVEY  (Moses)  New- 
foundland The  Oldest  British  Colony,  its  history,  its 
present  condition,  and  its  prospeiSts  in  the  future.  Qy 
Joseph  Hatton  and  the  Rev.  M.  Harvey,  supplemented 
by  Artistic  Contributions — London^  1883.  (4^3) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xxiv  +489  +  8  plates. 
A  new  edition  was 

.  ,  .  Reprinted  from  the  English  Edition  j  revised,  correfled, 
and  enlarged — Boston,  1883.  (404) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  iii-xix  +431  +8  plates  +  map. 

The  account  of  the  Cabot  discovery,  i-io,  recognizes  that  all 
doubts,  so  far  as  the  supposed  landfall  on  Newfoundland  are  con- 
cerned, were  set  at  rest  by  the  discovery  of  the  1544  Cabot  map. 

HAYWARD  (Charles,  Jr.)  The  School  Library.  Pub- 
lished  under  the  sandion  of  the  board  of  education  of  the 
state  of  Massachusetts,  vol.  v.  Lives  of  eminent  indi- 
viduals, celebrated  in  American  history — Boston^  1839, 

(405) 
i2mo.     3  T  +  pp  iii-xii  +  380  +  facsim.  +  Cabot  port. 
The  "Life  of  Sebastian  Cabot,"  by  Mr.  C.  Hayward,  85-134,  is 
a  summary  of  Biddle  and  Campbell. 

HAYWARD  (Charles)  The  Library  of  American 
biography  condudted  by  Jared  Sparks,  vol.  ix. — Boston^ 
1838.  (406) 

i2mo.     3  T  +  pp  v-xii  +  358  +  facsim. 

An  engraved  title  has  a  portrait  of  Sebastian  Cabot  "  From  an 
original  Painting  by  Holbein.     G.  F.  Storm,  sc."' 

Reprinted,  page  for  page,  Neiu  York,  1844,  and,  without  ihe 
engraved  title,  1856. 

The  Life  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  by  Mr.  Hayward,  is  on  pp.  90-162. 
It  is  "  an  attempt  to  do  justice  to  a  man  whose  unobtrusive  great- 
ness has  been  studiously  overlooked." 


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HAZARD   (Ebenezer). 

Hazard's  Historical  Colleliions, — Philadelphia,  1792,  a  volumes 
quarfo,  are  reterred  to  in  the  notes  to  Henry  VII.,  No.  136. 

HELLWALD  (Friedrich  Anton  Heller  von)  Sebas- 
tian Cabot,  von  Friedrich  von  Hellwald — Berlin^  1871. 

(407) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  3-43. 

In  the  Sammlung  gemein'verstdndlicher^mssemchaftlicherVortrdge, 
herausgegeben  von  Rud.  Viichow  und  Fr.  v.  HoltzendorfF,  vi. 
series  iv  (cxxiv). 

HERBERT  (William)  The  history  of  the  twelve  great 
Livery  Companies  of  London  ;  principally  compiled  from 
their  grants  and  records.  With  an  historical  essay,  and 
accounts  of  each  company,  by  William  Herbert — London^ 
the  author,  mdcccxxxvii  (-1836).  (408) 

8vo.  2  volumes.  T  +  pp  iii-xii  +  498  +  table  j  T  +  pp 
v-viii  +  '^83. 

The  significant  portions  of  the  document  described  under 
Drapers'  Company,  No.  94,  were  first  printed,  together  with 
some  account  of  Cabot,  in  i.  410-412. 

HESSELS   (JoHANN  Heinrich). 

Hessel's  bibliography  of  Ortei.ius  is  described  as  No.  181. 

HIGGINSON   (Thomas  Wentworth). 

Mr.  Higginson's  Book  of  American  Explorers, — Boston,  \°'jj,  is 
mentioned  under  Hakluyt,  No.  133''.  (+09) 

HILLIARD   (George  S.). 

See  note  under  Biddle,  No.  262,  for  Mr.  Hilliard's  article  on 
Cabot  in  the  North  American  Revie-iv, — Boston,  April,  1832,  xxxiv. 
405-428. 

THE  HISTORY  of  the  British  dominions  in  North 
America  :  from  the  first  discovery  of  that  vast  continent  by 
Sebastian  Cabot  in  1497,  to  its  present  glorious  establish- 
ment as  confirmed  by  the  late  treaty  of  peace  in  1763. — 
London^  mdcclxxiii.  (4^0) 

4to.     T  -I-  6  11  +  pp  3-297  -f-  275  +  map. 


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HODDER    (F.  H.)     The  Expansion  of  the  EngHsI.  Race. 

(410*) 

An  intelligent  review  of  Beazley's  Cabot,  Ni  156.  In  The 
Dial, — Chicago,  16  November,  1898,  xxv.  342-343. 

HODGES  (Elizabeth)  The  Cabots  and  the  Discovery 
ot  America.  With  a  brief  description  and  history  of 
Brandon  Hill,  the  site  of  the  Cabot  Memorial  Tower. 
By  Elizabeth  Hodges.     Illustrated  by  S.  Loxton — Bristol. 

(411) 

Small  4to.     Cover  +  T  +  pp  3-32. 

On  p.  23  is  the  statement  that  Sebastian  Cabot  was  the  first  to 
introduce  into  England  the  Spanish  praftice  of  sheathing  keels  with 
lead. 

HOPPER  (Clarence)  Sebastian  Cabot,  an  episode  in 
his  life.  (412) 

In  Notes  and  S^ueries, — London,  15  February,  1862,  3rd  series,  i. 
125. 

The  letters  described  under  Edward  VI.,  No.  102,  and  Charles 
v..  No.  71,  was  first  printed  in  this  communication. 

HORSFORD  (Eben  Norton)  John  Cabot's  Landfall  in 
1497,  ^"'^  ^^^  ^'^^  °^  Norumbega.  A  letter  to  Chief-Jus- 
tice Daly,  president  of  the  American  Geographical  So- 
ciety.    By  Eben  Norton  Horsford, — Cambridge^  1886. 

(413) 
4to.  Cover  +  T  +  pp  3-42  +  2  plates  +  8  maps. 
On  the  assumption  that  Lok's  map.  No.  156,  is  "  a  sketch  pro- 
duced by  John  Cabot  on  his  return  from  his  voyage,  early  in 
August,  1497,  of  what  he  observed  between  the  morning  of  the 
24111  of  June  and  the  date  of  his  departure  from  our  shores,"  Pro- 
fessor Horsford  demonstrates  that  the  landfall  was  on  what  is  now 
Salem  Neck  in  Massachusetts  Bay. 

HOWLAND   (Oliver  Aiken)     The  fourth  century  of 

Canadian  history.     By  O.  A.  Howland,  M.P.  (4^4) 

In  the  Canadian  Magazine, — Toronto^  January,  1895,  iv.  199. 
209. 

HOWLEY  (James  Patrick)    The  Landfall  of  Cabot. 

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In  the  Bulletin-Tra}isaSiions,  i886-i8S9,  of  the  Geographical 
Society  of  Quebec, — S^uebec,  1889,  i.  67-78  +  2  maps. 

An  effort  to  refute  No.  41 3,  and  to  locate  the  landfall  on  Lab- 
rador. 


HOWLEY   (Michael  F.) 


Cabot's  Landfall.  (416) 

-Neiv  Tork,  Oftober, 


In  the  Magazine  of  American   History, - 
1891,  xxvi.  267-288. 

A  strong  reply  to  No.  4.1 5  and  to  Beaudouin,  No.  255,  in  favour 
of  a  landfall  at  Cape  Bonavista. 

HOWLEY  (Michael  F.)  Cabot's  Voyages.  A  kaure 
delivered  in  St.  Patrick's  Hall,  for  the  Athenasum,  St. 
John's,  Newfoundland,  by  the  Right  Rev.  Bishop  Howley, 
January  nth,  1897.  (4^7) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  3-39  +  map. 

An  argument  in  favour  of  a  landfall  at  Cape  St.  John,  supported 
by  the  suggestion  that  Cabot  sighted  the  southern  point  of  Green- 
land, following  direflions  received  in  Iceland.  The  ideas  of  Daw- 
son appear  to  him  "  obviously  absurd  and  impossible  ...  to  people 
born  with  the  'nautical  sense,'  as  we  are  here  in  Newfoundland." 

The  "Oration,  On  the  Occasion  of  the  Laying  of  the  Founda- 
tion Stone  of  the  Cabot  Signal  Tower  and  Jubilee  Memorial  by 
Right  Rev.  Bishop  Howley  "  was  printed  in  the  Evening  Herald, — 
St.  John-s,  N.F.,  25  June,  1897.  (418) 


HUDD   (Alfred  E.). 

Mr.   Hudd's  introduftion  to  "the   Cabot  Roll 
under  Kemys,  No.  152. 


is  mentioned 


HUGHES  (Walter  William)  A  short  account  of  the 
Cabots  and  the  First  Discovery  of  the  Continent  of 
America.  Compiled  for  the  Cabot  Celebration  Committee 
by  Walter  William  Hughes,  Member  of  the  Bristol  Town 
Council — Bristol,  8th  March,  1897.  (419) 

8vo.    Pp.  1-8. 

A  very  careful  statement,  unusually  moderate  for  an  avowedly 
local  essay,  of  the  connexion  between  the  Cabots  and  Bristol. 

HUGUES  (LuiGi)  Le  navigazioni  di  G.  e  S.  Caboto 
Memoria  del  Professore  L.  Hugues.  (420) 

In  the  Memori"  della  Societa  Gengrafica  Italiana, — Rome,  1878,  i. 
pt.  iii.  275-313.     Also  issued  separately. 


y 


Cabot  ifSibliodrapb)? 


H5 


A  useful  discussion  of  the  idea  that  Cabot  may  have  secured  in- 
formation or  suggestions  from  the  Iceland  traditions. 

HUMBOLDT  (Alexander,  Baron  von)  Examen  cri- 
tique de  rhistoire  de  la  gdographie  du  nouveau  continent 
et  des  progres  de  I'astronomie  nautique  aux  quinzieme  et 
seizieme  siecles  par  Alexandre  de  Humboldt — Paris 
i836(-i839).  (421) 

8vo.  5  volumes.  T  +  pp  iii-xxvii  +  362  ;  373  ;  407  }  336  j 
263  +  4.  maps.     Reissued,  1839,  ^'^'^'^  ^  maps. 

There  are  German  editions,  Berlin,  i836(-52),  and  1852  :  the 
latter  has  a  much-needed  index. 

The  priority  of  Cabot's  discovery  of  the  American  mainland  is 
noted,  iv.  230-232,  with  a  footnote  containing  "  les  documens  les 
plus  iniportans  pour  I'histoire  des  deux  premieres  navigations  de 
Sebastien  Cabot." 

HUNT  (William)  Historic  Towns — Bristol,  by  William 
Hunt — London^  Longmans,  1887.  (422) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xiii  4-  *3o  +  4.  maps. 
The  account  of  the  Cabots,  126-135,  follows  Deane  closely. 

JIMENEZ   DE    LA   ESPADA   (Marcos)      Relaciones 

geographicas  de  Indias  publicalas  el  ministerio  de  fomento. 

Peru — Madrid  1893.  (4^3) 

Spanish  folio.     2  volumes.     2  T  +  pp  v-clv  ■\-  ziS  •\-  clix  ;  2 

T  -i-  pp  v-1  +  242  +  clviii. 

A  footnote  in  vol.  i.,  p.  xxx,  made  known  the  reference  to  a  map 
drawn  by  Sebastian  Cabot,  No.  44. 

JONES  (John  Winter)  Divers  voyages  touching  the 
discovery  of  America  and  the  islands  adjacent.  ColTedled 
and  published  by  Richard  Hakluyt,  prebendary  of  Bristol, 
in  the  year  1582.  Edited,  With  Notes  and  an  Intro- 
duction, by  John  Winter  Jones,  of  the  British  Museum. 
— London^  Hakluyt  Society,  m.dccc.l.  (424) 

8vo.     2T  +  il-J-ppcxi+  171  +64-2  maps  -|-   facsimile. 

See  Hakluyt,  No.  125.  The  editorial  comments  on  Cabot's 
writings  are  on  p.  Ivii,  and  on  Biddle's  stri6lures  on  Hakluyt,  on 
pp.  Ixviii-lxxiii,  Ixxxviii-lxxxix. 

JURIEN  DE  LA  GRAVI^RE  (J^ean  Baptiste 
Edmond)  Les  marins  du  xv^  et  du  xvi*  siecle  par  le  vice- 
amiral  Jurien  de  la  Graviere — Paris  1879.  (4^5) 

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146  Cabot  JSibUodtapbi? 

8vo.  2  volumes.  2  T  +  pp  321  +  Cabot  map;  2  T  +  pp 
344  +  map. 

La  Mappemonde  de  Sebastien  Cabot,  i.  207-321,  is  the  sub- 
heading ot  part  ii.,  which  deals  principally  with  the  English  dis- 
covery of  Russia.  A  portion  of  this  part  was  printed  in  the  Revue 
des  Deux  Mondes, — Paris.,  15  June,  1876,  xv.  757-784,  with  the 
heading  :  "  Sebastien  Cabot  et  Sir  Hugh  Willoughby." 

KERR  (ROBERT). 

The  title  of  Kerr's  Colle3ion  of  f'oyages,  1811-1824,  is  quoted 
under  Stevenson,  No.  534. 

KIDDER  (Frederick)  The  discovery  of  North  America 
by  John  Cabot.  A  first  chapter  in  the  history  of  North 
America.  (4^6) 

In  the  Ne'w  England  Historic-Genealogical  Register, — Boston, 
06Vober,  1878,  xxxii.  380-389.  Reprinted  separately,  with  a  map. 
Read  before  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  17  February,  1874. 

The  Cabot  1544  map  and  PaoQualigo,  No.  183,  persuaded 
Mr.  Kidder  that  Cabot  circumnavigated  Prince  Edward  Island  and 
followed  the  coast  of  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence  until  he  had  ex- 
plored 300  leagues,  before  he  turned  homeward.  This  theory  was 
made  the  subjedlof  extended  notices  in  the  Boston  daily  newspapers. 

KOHL  (JoHANN  Georg)  Die  beiden  altesten  General- 
Karten  von  Amerika.  Ausgefiihrt  in  den  Jahren  1527 
und  1529  auf  befehl  Kaiser  Karl's  V.  Im  Besitz  der 
grossherzoglichen  Bibliothek  zu  Weimar.  Erlautert  von 
J.  G.  Kohl — fVeimar^  Geographisches  Institut,  i860. 

(427) 

Imperial  410.     2  T  -(-  pp  v-x  -1-185-1-2  facsimile  maps. 

On  pp.  146-151,  Der  La  Plata-Strom,  Dr.  Kohl  shows  that 
RiBERO  in  his  1529  maps  used  the  information  which  Cabot  sent 
home  to  Spain  in  1528  by  the  Trinidad;  see  the  Introduilion,  p. 
xxix. 

KOHL  (JoHANN  Georg)  A  descriptive  catalogue  of 
those  Maps,  Charts  and  Surveys  relating  to  America, 
which  are  mentioned  in  Vol.  III.  of  Hakluyt's  Great 
Work,  by  J.  G.  Kohl — Washington  1857.  (427*) 

8vo.    T  4-  pp  3-86. 

The  references  to  maps  made  by  the  Cabots  are  discussed  on  pp. 
11-16. 


Cabot  JSiblioarapb^ 


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s  the  sub- 
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,  the  Revue 
.,  with  the 


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I  America 

of  North 

(426) 

rr, — Boston, 
vith  a  map. 
1874.. 
persuaded 
Island  and 
he  had  ex- 
theory  was 
newspapers. 

General- 
ren  1527 
lesitz  der 
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i860. 

(427) 

maps. 

shows  that 
Cabot  sent 
oduiiion,  p. 


ilogue  of 
America, 
t's  Great 
(427*) 

ssed  on  pp. 


KOHL  (JoHANN  Georg)  Geschichte  der  Entdeckung 
Amerika's  von  Columbus  bis  Franklin — Bremen  1861. 

(428) 

izmo.    T  +  2  11  +  pp  454. 

Neues  Ausgabe, — Leipzig,  1885,  Translated  into  English  by 
Major  R.  R.  Noch, —  London,  1865  ;  2  volumes  small  8vo. 

KOHL  (JoHANN  Georg)  Documentary  history  of  the 
state  of  Maine,  edited  by  William  Willis.  Vol.  \.  con- 
taining a  history  of  the  discovery  of  Maine  by  J.  G.  Kohl 
— Portland,  1869.  {429) 

8vo.     3  T  +  pp  viii  4-  9-535  +  *3  maps. 

The  second  title  is  "  A  history  of  the  discovery  of  the  east  coast 
of  North  America,  particularly  the  coast  of  Maine  j  from  the  north- 
men  in  990,  to  the  charter  of  Gilbert  in  1578." 

This  volume  has  had  a  considerable  influence  in  popularizing  in 
the  United  States  sound  scientific  ideas  regarding  the  proper  methods 
for  studying  the  period  of  discovery.  The  Cabot  voyages  are  dis- 
cussed on  pp.  121-163,  the  sources  being  interpreted  under  the  in- 
fluence of  Humboldt.  A  careful  study  of  the  1544  Cabot  map, 
pp.  358-377,  leads  to  one  of  the  earliest  convincing  expressions  of 
doubt  about  Sebastian  Cabot's  share  in  its  construilion.  An 
appendix  by  M.  d'Avezac,  No.  243,  replies  to  Dr.  Kohl's  very 
able  arguments  against  a  1494  Cabot  voyage. 

Dr.  Kohl's  narrative  is  condensed  in  Larned,  History  for  Ready 
Reference, — Springfield,  Massachusetts,  1894,  i.  51-54. 

KOHL  (JoHANN  Georg)  Geschichte  der  Entdeckungs- 
reisen  und  SchifFfahrten  zur  Magellan's-strasse  und  zu 
den  ihr  benachbarten  Landern  und  Meeren  von  J.  G. 
Kohl — Berlin,  1877.  (43°) 

8vo.     2  T  -f  pp  iii-xii  +  177  +  8  maps. 

Cabot's  La  Plata  expedition  is  discussed  on  pp.  52-53. 

LAFONE  QUEVEDO  (S.  A.)  El  "Sebastian  Gaboto" 
de  Henry  Harrisse.  (43°*) 

In  the  Boletin  of  the  Institute  Geogrifico  Argentine, — Buenos 
Aires,  1898,  xix.  3-34,  360-418.     Also  issued  separately. 

See  note  under  Harrisse,  No.  387.  Sr.  Lafone  Quevedo  trans- 
lated the  portions  of  Harrisse's  work  which  relate  to  the  La  Plata 
expedition,  printing  the  documents  in  the  appendix  to  No.  387, 
besides  adding  notes  and  re£Hfications  based  upon  an  intimate 
acquaintance  with  the  localities  visited  l)y  Cabot  in  1 526-1 529. 


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These  correflions  made  a  material  addition  to  the  knowledge  of 
Cabot's  itinerary  during  these  years,  and  effeflually  supersede  every 
other  account  of  that  expedition. 

LAMB   (Martha  Joanna  Reade). 

See  the  note  under  Truax,  No.  553. 

LAMBERT  DE  ST.  BRIS  (Thomas  H.)  Reaifi- 
caciones  historicas  (extradto)  viajcs  cie  Vespucio  y  Caboto. 
Amd-rica,  nombre  de  origen  indigena.  El  c^lebre  y  mas 
antiguo  conocido  mapa  de  America  de  Juan  de  la  Cosa — 
Barcelona  1892.  (43 1) 

8vo.     Cover  +  2  T  +  pp  iii-xxii  +  5-27. 

There  is  a  curious  illustration  of  the  ease  with  which  special 
pleading  can  pervert  the  apparent  significance  of  historical  data,  in 
the  paragraphs  headed,  "  i  Si  exist lan  pruebas  de  un  viaje  trasat- 
lantico  al  xv  siglo  por  Juan  6  Sebastiano  Caboto  ? "  pp.  21-23. 


LANZA   (G.). 

A  letter,  written  in  Venice,  ?.^  March,  1876,  concerning  the 
claims  of  Chioggia  to  be  the  birthplace  of  John  Cibot,  is  noted 
under  Bullo,  No.  290'. 

LARNED  (Joseph  Nelson). 

The  account  of  Cabot  in  the  History  for  Ready  Reference,  from  the 
best  historians,  biographers,  and  specialists  in  the  English  Language, 
edited  by  Mr.  Ld^rntd,— Springfield,  Massachusetts ^  1894,  i.  51-54, 
V.  3678,  is  from  Bancroft,  Deane,  and  Kohl.  (+3*) 

LA  ROQUE  (Louis  de)  Armorial  de  la  Noblesse  de 
Languedoc  g^n^ralit^  de  Montpellier  par  M.  Louis  de  la 
Roque — Montpellier  {Paris)  1 860.  (433) 

Large  8vo.  a  volumes.  2  T  +  pp  v-xxix  +  560  5  xti  +  463 
-I-  plate. 

In  the  account  of  the  Cabots  de  la  Fare  et  de  Dampmartin,  ii. 
163-165,  the  family  line  is  traced  from  the  Anglo-Venetian  dis- 
coverer, through  "  Louis,  fils  de  Jean,  retire  en  France  demeurant 
a  St.  Paul  la  Coste,  dans  les  C^vennes  .  .  .  Sebastien  mourut  en 
France  sans  posterite."  The  arms,  "  d*azur  a  trois  chabots  d'or," 
with  the  device,  semper  cor  caput  Cabot,  are  the  same  as  those  of 
the  Cabot  family  on  the  Jersey  Islands,  from  whom  the  New 
England  Cabots  claim  descent :  see  note  under  Lodge,  No.  438. 
These  do  not  correspond  with  the  motto  on  the  Cabot  portrait,  No. 
61.     Mr.  Harrisse  describes  his  fruitless  efforts  to  diicover  some 


It'  *i : 


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Cabot  Biblioatapbi? 


149 


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the  New 
!,  No.  438. 
)rtrait,  No. 
cover  some 


trace  of  evidence  to  support  the  claims  of  the  French  or  the  Jersey 
Cabots,  in  his  Cabot,  pp.  381-384. 

LATIMER  (John)  Bristol:  its  associations  and  surround- 
ings, Historical,  Literary,  Scientific,  Antiquarian,  Social 
and  Commercial  in  connection  with  the  visit  of  the 
British  Association  for  the  advancement  of  science,  1898. 
Descriptive  Text  by  John  Latimer — Bristol.  (434) 

Oblong  8vo,     Cover  -|-  pp  96. 
The  Cabots,  62-63. 

LELEWEL  (Joachim)  Gcographie  du  moyen  age,  etudiee 
par  Joachim  Lelevi'el — BruxelleSy  1852,  (435) 

8vo.     4  volumes,  with  atlas. 

Besides  useful  working  engravings  of  the  maps  which  suggest 
the  results  of  the  Cabot  voyages,  there  is  a  passing  reference  to 
them,  ii.  140. 

LEON  PINELO  (Antonio  de)  Epitome  de  la  biblio- 
teca  Oriental  i  Occidental,  Nautica  i  Geografica.  Por 
el  Licenciado  Antonio  de  Leon  Relator  del  Supremo  i 
Real  Consejo  de  las  Indias — Madrid^  m.dc.xxix.       (436) 

Small  4to.     T  -(-  43  11  +  pp  i86  4-  xiii. 
A  revised  edition  has  the  title  : 

LEON  PINELO  (Antonio  de)  Epitome  .  .  .  de  Leon 
Pinelo  .  .  .  coronista  maior  de  las  indias,  anadido,  y  en- 
mendado  nuevamente  .  .  .  por  mano  del  marques  de 
Torrc-Neuva,  ?u  Secretario  del  Despacho  Universal  de 
Hacienda,  Indias,  i  Marina — Madrid^  m.d.cc.xxxvii. 

(437) 

Folio.  3  volumes.  T  -|-  ao  11  +  columns  (z  on  each  page)  i- 
536  +  pp  537-538  +11  539-561  4-  53  llj.T  (1/38)  +  I  I  -t-  col. 
561-912  4-  II  913-920  +  Divxxi-Divxxxii  -f  col.  921-1191  •\-  11 
1192-1199  •\-  Mcc-Mccxxxviii ;  T  -f  1  1  +  col.  1200-1729  -|- pp 
1-133. 

See  the  note  under  Ramusio,  No,  195'',  for  an  account  of  the 
references  under  Cabot's  name,  p.  45,  1629  edition;  i.  col.  377, 
1737  edition.  The  reference  under  Grajaies  is  discussed  in  the 
notes  to  Cabot,  No.  56*. 


\.\ 


LODGE   (Henry  Cabot)     The  home  of  the  Cabots. 


(438) 


,1-/ 

'I 

"7 


1 50  Cabot  JSibliograpbs 

In  the  Nineteenth  Century, — /.o»(/o»,  May,  1897,  ccxliii.  734-733. 
Reprinted  in  the  Ecleili:  Magazine  for  June,  1897,  and,  in  book 
form,  in  Lodge,  Certan  jucepted  Heroes, — Neiv  York,  Harpers, 
1897,  189-100. 

This  is  an  effort  to  prove  that  "  the  strongest  evidence  we  have 
shows  that  the  men  who  gave  England  her  title  to  North  America 
.  .  .  sprang  from  those  Channel  Islands  (Jersey)  which  have  been 
a  part  of  Great  Britain  ever  since  William  the  Conqueror  seized 
the  English  Crown."  Some  of  the  curious  inconsistencies  in  the 
argument  are  pointed  out  in  the  Revieiv  of  Historical  Literature  re- 
lating to  Canada, — Toronto,  1898,  ii.  3S-37j  see  also  Harrisse, 
No.  396. 

LUCAS  (Samuel)     Sebastian  Cibot.  (439) 

In  Notes  and  S^ueries, — London,  6  March,  1858,  ziid  series,  v. 
193-194. 

This  is  one  of  the  early  declarations  that  Sebastian  was  a  liar. 
It  is  a  continuation  of  a  discussion  as  to  his  birthplace,  previo\isly 
conducted  through  the  Bristol  newspapers  ;  see  the  references  under 
George,  No.  362. 


MACDONALD  (William) 
the  extent  of  his  discoveries. 


The  landfall  ot  Cabot  and 

(440) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society, — Portland, 
1897,  viii.  416-426. 
A  very  sensible  statement,  based  upon  Harrisse. 


MACKINTOSH  (Charles  Herbert)  Cabot  and  other 
western  explorers.  By  the  Hon.  C.  H.  Mackintosh, 
Lieutenant-governor  of  the  N.  W.  Territories.  (440 

In  the  Canadian  Magazine, — Toronto,  December,  1896,  viii.  150- 
156. 

MACPHERSON  (A.  C.)  The  Good  Ship  "Matthew" 
or  four  hundred  years  ago.  A  Poem  by  A.  C.  Macpherson. 
— Bristol.  (442) 

Small  4to.     Cover  -I-  2  T  -f-  pp  5-31. 

MADERO  (Eduardo)  Historia  del  puerto  de  Buenos 
Aires  por  D.  Eduardo  Madero.  Tomo  I.  Descubri- 
miento  del  Rio  de  la  Plata  y  de  sus  principales  afluentes  y 
fundacion  de  las  mas  antiguas  ciudades  en  sus  margenes — 
Buenos  Jires  1892.  (443) 

Large  8vo.     T  -f  pp  389. 


■7 


Cabot  JSibliodrapbi? 


'5' 


ii.  734-713. 
id,  in  book 
i.  Harpers, 

ice  we  have 
th  America 
have  been 
jeror  seized 
icies  in  the 
iterature  re- 
Harrisse, 


(439) 

d  series,  v. 

was  a  liar. 
,  previously 
-ences  under 


!^abot  and 

(440) 
-Portland, 


and  other 
ackintosh, 

(44  0 

96,  viii.  150- 


Vlatthew  " 
acpherson. 

(442) 


le  Buenos 
Descubri- 
liluentes  y 
argenes — 

(443) 


This  work,  which  was  praised  very  highly  by  Spanish  historical 
writers  at  the  time  of  ..s  appearance,  'wa^i  privately  printed  by  Sr. 
Madero  in  an  edition  of  150  copies  for  private  circulation.  A  new 
edition  is  said  to  be  in  contemplation.  The  volume  is  reported  to 
contain  a  considerable  number  of  new  and  important  documents 
di  "overed  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies  and  other  depositaries.  See 
Fernandez  Duro,  '.o.  348,  and  Fregeiro  in  the  Revista  of  the 
Museo  de  la  Plata. 

M/iINE  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY  Cabot  quadri- 
centennial.  Brunswick,  Maine,  Wednesday,  June  23, 
1897.  (444) 

In  the  ColU3ions  and  Proceedings  of  th  vfaire  Historical  Society, 
— Portland,  Oflober,  1897,  vii.  337-454- 

The  papers  read  at  this  meeting  are  described  under  Baxter, 
Black,  Burraue,  Macdonald,  and  Sewall. 

MAJOR  (Richard  Henry)  The  life  of  Prince  Henry 
of  Portugal,  surnamed  the  navigator ;  and  its  results  .  .  . 
a  refutation  of  French  claims  to  priority  in  discovery  ; 
Portuguese  knowledge  (subsequertly  lost)  of  the  Nile 
lakes  ;  and  the  history  of  the  naming  of  America.  From 
Authentic  Cotemporary  Documents,  by  Richard  Henry 
Major — London  1868.  (445) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  lii  +  487  +  6  plates  4-  /  maps. 

A  second  edition,  rewritten  and  condensed,  has  the  title :  The 
Discoveries  of  Prince  Henry — London,  1877,  pp  xii  +  326  4-  11 
plates  and  maps. 

The  sometime  important  problem  of  the  priority  in  the  discovery 
of  the  American  mainland  is  decided  in  favour  of  Cabot,  p.  374. 
The  index  refers  to  "John  and  his  brother  Sebastian." 

Mr.  Major's  edition  of  Strachey,  Virginia, — London,  1849,  '* 
described  as  No.  214. 

MAJOR  (Richard  Henry)  The  true  date  of  the  English 
Discovery  of  the  American  Continent  under  John  and 
Sebastian  Cabot:  a  letter  addressed  by  Richard  Henry 
Major  to  C.  S.  Perceval.  (446) 

In  ArcAteoIogia,  published  by  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of 
London,  1871,  xliii.  17-42.     Also  issued  separately. 

A  discussion  of  Kohl  and  d'Avezac,  No.  429.  The  wording 
of  the  title  probably  explains  why  this  essay  is  frequently  referred 
to  as  if  it  contained  the  first  convincing  sug'^estion  that  the  figures 
mccccxciiii  on  the  Cabot  1^44  map,  No.  55^-55%  vvere  originally 


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written  in  manuscript  mccccxcvii  with  the  lines  forming  the  V  not 
joining  at  the  bottom. 

MARK  HAM   (Albert  Hastings). 

Admiral  Marltham's  edition  of  Davis,  yoyages  and  WorkSy — 
London,  1880,  is  described  as  No.  87. 

MARKHAM  (Clements  Robert)  The  voyages  of 
William  Baffin,  161 2-1622.  Edited  by  Clements  R. 
Markham. — London^  Hakluyt  Society,  mdccclxxxi. 

(447) 
8vo.     2  T  4-  2  11  +  PP  I'x  +  '9*  4-  port.  +  5  maps. 
"  An    excellent  system  of  keeping  log  books,  inaugurated  by 
Sebastian  Cabot,  was  enforced  by  the  Muscovy  Company,"  p.  xxx. 

MARKHAM  (Clements  Robert)  A  life  of  John 
Davis,  the  navigator,  1550- 1605,  discoverer  of  Davis 
straits.     By  Clements  R.  Markham. — London  1889. 

(448) 
8vo.     2  T  +  2  11  +  pp  301  +  5  plates  +  4  maps. 
The  reference  to  the  Cabots  on  p.  1 5  affords  an  interesting  illus- 
tration of  the  difficulty  experienced  by  the  most  thoroughly  in- 
formed students  in  avoiding  the  traditional  errors  of  the  (^abotian 
legends. 

MARKHAM  (Clements  Robert)  Life  of  Christopher 
Columbus.     By  Clements  R.  Markham. — London  1892. 

(449) 
8vo.     2  T  -f  2  11  -f  pp  375  +  3  plates  +  8  map.s. 

Cabot,  226-233, 

MARKHAM  (Clements  Robert)  Columbus,  and  the 
Fourth  Centenary  of  his  Discovery.  By  Clements  R. 
Markham.  (45°) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Geographical  Society, — London, 
September,  1892,  xiv.  585-613  +  portrait. 

"  The  voyages  of  Cabot  and  Cortereal  in  their  bearings  on  the 
work  of  Columbus,''  601-602. 

MARKHAM  (Clements  Robert)  The  journal  of 
Christopher  Columbus  (During  his  First  Voyage,  1492- 
93),  and  documents  relating  to  the  voyages  of  John 
Cabot  and  Caspar  Corte  Real.      1  ranslated,  with  Notes 


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and  an  Introdudllon,  by  Clements  R.  Markham. — London^ 
Hakluyt  Society,  m.dccc.xciii.  (450 

8vo.     2  T  +  2  II  +  pp  liv  +  259  +  plate  +  4  maps. 

John  Cabot,  ix-xxii  ;  Sebastian  Cabot,  xxii-xliv ;  Documents, 
197-126.  This  is  the  standanl  colleftion  of  English  renderings  of 
the  important  Cabot  documents. 

See  Dawson,  No.  318,  for  the  letter  from  Sir  Clements  Mark- 
ham  to  Dr.  J.  G.  Bourinot,  dated  London,  26  April,  189C),  raising 
"  very  solid  reasons  for  a  Cabot  celebration  "  and  showing  that 
"  Cabot  must  therefore  be  considered  to  have  been  the  founder  ot 
British  maritime  enterprise."  (45^) 

MARKHAM   (Clements    Robert)      Fourth    centenary 
of  the  voyage  of  John  Cabot,  J497.  (453) 

In  T/ie  Geographical  Journal  oi  iht  Royal  Geographical  Society, 
— London,  ]\.me,  1897,  ix.  604.-615  +  map. 

The  discussion  which  followed  the  reading  of  this  paper,  1 2  April, 
1897,  is  described  under  Church,  Payne,  and  Prowse.  The 
map  of  the  North  Atlantic  by  F.  S.  Wcller,  F.R.G.S.,  shows  the 
suggested  routes  of  Columbus  in  14.92  and  Cabot  in  1497. 

In  1893,  Sir  Clements  Markham  considered  that  the  north  end  of 
Cape  Breton  was  "exaflly  the  landfall  the  Matt/iexv  might  be 
expected  to  make  under  the  circumstances "  existing  in  1497. 
Further  consideration  led  him  in  1897  to  think  that  this,  although 
barely  possible,  was  unlikely,  and  that  "  taking  Soncino's  account 
of  the  voyage  by  itself,  there  can  be  no  question  that  Bonavista 
bay,  on  the  east  coast  of  Newfoundland,  was  the  landfall." 
Together,  these  essays  present  the  best  account  of  what  was  really 
accomplished  by  the  Cabots. 

The  relation  of  the  Cabots  to  the  geueralcurrent  of  geographical 
evolution,  from  an  English  point  of  view,  is  suggested  in  an  essay 
on  the  progress  of  discovery,  by  C.  R,  M.,  in  the  Encychpadia  Bri- 
tannica,  ninth  edition,  London^  1875,  x.  183;  see  also  xix.  316. 
The  account  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  iv.  622-623,  '>*  not  signed.  (454) 

MARKLAND  (James  Hey  wood)     Sebastian  Cabot. 

(455) 

In  Notes  and  i^ries, — London,  z  January,  1858,  2nd  series,  v.  1-2. 

This  is  an  abstract  of  the  documents  discovered  by  Rawdon 
Brown,  and  described  as  No.  18,  See  the  note  to  George,  No. 
362. 

MATHEWS   (Edward    Robert  Norris)      Cabot   and 

the  story  of  the  Harford  Portrait.  Edited  by  E.  R.  Norris 

Mathews — Bristol^  ^^97-  (45^) 
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This  is  an  account,  taken  from  a  contemporary  manuscript 
calendar,  of  the  curious  circumstances  by  which  the  portrait  de- 
scribed as  No.  6i,  came  into  the  posnessiun  of  Mr.  Harford,  and 
afterwards  passed  to  Mr.  Biddle.  See  the  note,  No  378,  under 
Harford. 


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respedtifs  des  deux  Couronnes  en  Amerique }  Avec  les 
Adtes  publics  et  Pi(5ces  justificatives.  tome  premier  .  .  . 
A  Paris^  de  I'imprimerie  royale.     m.dcclv. 

.  .  .  Tome  quatricme,  Contenant  les  derniers  Memoires 
sur  I'Acadie,  &  un  Mcmoire  des  Commissaires  du  Roi 
sur  I'Isle  de  Tabago — A  Parisy  de  I'imprimerie  royale. 
M.DccLVii.  (457) 

4to.     4.  volumes.     IV.     T  +  a  II  +  PP  "xv  +  654.  +  map. 

The  first  three  volumes  were  reprinted  several  times,  in  English 
and  in  French,  but  the  fourth  volume  does  not  appear  in  any  other 
edition. 

In  article  xxiv  of  their  reply  to  the  defence  offered  by  the  French 
Commissioners,  the  English  representatives,  Messrs.  W.  Shirley 
and  Wm.  Mildmay,  presented  an  extremely  careful  statement  of 
the  ai^ual  fa6ls  obtainable  in  regard  to  the  discoveries  made  by 
John  Cabot  Ir.  1497.  In  this  historical  statement,  of  which  French 
and  English  versions  are  printed  on  pp.  458-470,  there  is  almost 
nothing  which  has  been  proven  to  he  untrue  by  the  researches  of  Mr. 
Harrisse  and  his  predecessors,  nor  have  many  additions  of  material 
importance  been  made  to  the  fafls  therein  set  forth.  In  reply  to 
this,  the  French  Commissioners,  the  Abbe  de  la  Ville  and  MM.  de 
Silhouette  and  de  la  Galissoniere,  on  pp.  470-496,  developed  with 
great  skill  the  conflicting  evidence  which  appears  to  show  that 
Sebastian  was  the  real  discoverer,  and  that  absolutely  no  reliance 
can  with  confidence  be  placed  on  the  Cabot  documents  printed  by 
Hakluyt.  Extracts,  in  French,  from  Hakluyt,  Ramusio,  Gomara, 
Wytfliet,  and  Martyr  are  appended,  pp.  547-554. 

This  argument  by  a  French  diplomatist  is,  chronologically  and 
probably  in  fa6l,  the  beginning  of  the  misunderstanding  which  for 
more  than  a  century  confused  everyone  who  undertook  to  study  the 
history  of  the  Cabot  discoveries.  The  English  representatives  in 
1753  found  no  difficulties  in  arriving  at  what  we  now  know  to  be 
the  fafls  about  what  happened  in  1497.  Their  opponents,  a6ling 
well  within  their  rights,  applied  the  subtleties  of  controversial  logic 
to  the  sources  of  information ;  and  it  has  taken  historical  students 
a  hundred  and  fifty  years  to  unravel  the  resulting  tangle.  The 
theories  advanced  in  this  book  quickly  found  their  way  into  the 
standard  French  works  of  reference ;   the  desire  to  refute  these 


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errors  led  Biddle  to  write  his  great  work  ;  the  glorification  of 
Sebastian,  as  by  Nicholls,  was  the  natural  outcome  {  as  natural  a 
rea£^ion  drove  Mr.  Harri>»se  to  the  extremities  of  his  efforts  to  dis- 
credit Sebastian  utterly  j  the  present  volume  is  an  effort  to  restore 
equilibrium  and  set  things  right  once  more.  See  the  IntroJuSlion, 
p.  xxxix. 

MICKLE  (Sara)  The  Cabot  Calendar,  compiled  by  Sara 
Miclcle  assisted  by  Mary  Agnes  Fitz-Gibbon,  with  Draw- 
ings  by  M.  Gary  McConnell,  and  Clara  Fitz-Gerald. — 
[Bristol.]  (457*) 

MINERVA     Storia  degli  Stabilimenti  Europe!  in  America. 

(458) 

In  Minerva,  ossia  nuova  giornale  de'  Letterati  d'ltalia,  No. 
xxiv — yenetia,  February,  1763. 

Harrisse,  No.  383'',  quotes  this  anonymous  article  as  "cite  par 
M.  Pasini,"  and  adds,  «•  Cf.  le  passage,  p.  218,  'e  costante  fama  e 
indiibitata  che'  egli  (Sebast.  CaiiOt)  fosse  Vcneziano  e  di  piu  asserir 
possiamo  che  esso  naque  a  Castello.'  "     See  BuLLO,  No.  290,  p.  91. 

MINISCALCHI  ERIZZO  (Francesco)  Le  Scopertc 
Artiche  narrate  dal  Conte  Francesco  Miniscalchi  Erizzo. 
— l^cnezia  1855  (459) 

8vo.     2  T  "j-  pp  v-xvi  4"  644  -|-  map^-f-  2  plates. 
See  note  under  Biddle,  No.  269. 
is  on  pp.  123-133,  148-149. 


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MORCHIO   (Danielle). 

See  DONEAUD,  No.  335,  for  one  of  the  claims  to  the  birthplace 
of  the  Cabots,  which  is  also  considered  in  MoRCHiO,  //  Marinaio 
Italiano,  p.  104,  according  to  Harrisse,  No.  383''.  (460) 

MORONI  (Gaetano). 

According  to  Harrisse,  No.  383'',  the  work  of  Sig.  Bullo,  No. 
290,  was  based  upon  an  article  by  Sig.  Moroni  in  xheAnnuaU  Feneto 
istrutti'vo  e  dilettevole, — Fei'ice,  ijiG^  (+6') 

MOSES  (Bernard)     The  establishment  of  Spanish   rule 

in  America  an  introduction  to  the  history  and  politics  of 

Spanish  America  by  Bernard  Moses — New  Tork^  Putnams, 

1898.  (462) 

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There  is  a  sketch  of  Cabot's  I,a  Plata  voyage,  derived  from  the 
standard  historical  works  on  the  Argentine  Republic,  on  pp.  i88- 
191. 

NAVARRETE  (Martin  Fernandez  de)  Coleccion 
de  los  viages  y  descubrimientos,  que  hicieron  por  mar  los 
espanoles  desde  fines  del  siglo  XV,  con  varios  documentos 
incditos  concernientes  a  la  historia  de  la  marina  castellana 
y  de  los  establecimientos  espanoles  en  indias,  coordinada  c 
ilustrada  por  Don  Martin  Fernandez  de  Navarrete — 
Madrid,  en  la  imprenta  real,  i825(-i837)  (4^3) 

4to.  5  volumes.  T  +  i  1  +  pp  cli  +  4.55  +  map  ;  T  +  455  ; 
T  +  XV  +  64.2  ;  xc  +  416  ;  T  4   501. 

There  are  documents  relating  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  Spanish  career 
in  iii.  319,  iv.  339-3+1  ;  v.  333. 

NAVARRETE  (Martin  Fernandez  de)  Disertacion 
sobre  la  historia  de  la  nautica,  y  de  las  ciencias  matemai- 
ticas  que  nan  contribuido  a  sus  progresos  entre  los  espanoles. 
Obra  postuma  del  Excmo.  S"".  D.  Martin  Fernandez 
Navarrete  :  ha  publica  la  Real  Academia  de  la  Historia — 
Madrid  1846  (464) 

8vo.     2  T  +  pp  5-421. 

On  p.  138  Cabot's  career  is  cited  in  illustration  of  the  manner  in 
which  foreigners  were  drafted  into  the  Spanish  service.  Lord 
Ulibe  (i.e.  Willoughby)  is  referred  to  as  "Milort  Wlive." 

NAVARRETE  (Martin  Fernandez  de)  Coleccion 
de  opusculos  del  Excmo.  S''.  D.  Martin  Fernandez  de 
Navarrete  ...  la  dan  a  luz  D.  Eustaquio  y  D.  Francisco 
Fernandez  de  Navarrete — Madrid  1848  (465) 

8vo.     2  volumes.     2  T  -f  pp  v-xvi  +  384  +  2  11 :   384  -J-  i  1. 
For  Cabot,  see  i.  65-66. 

NAVARRETE  (Martin  Fernandez  de)  Biblioteca 
maritima  espanola,  obra  postuma  .  .  .  impresa  del  real 
orden — Madrid  1851.  (466) 

8vo.     2  volumes.     2  T  -f-  pp  v-xxxvil  +  671  :  2  T  4-  PP  784. 

The  account  of  Sebastian  Cabot  in  this  biographical  dictionary 
of  Spanish  seamen,  ii.  697-700,  was  the  main  guide  to  his  Spanish 
career  until  supplanted  by  Harrisse  in  1896.  A  note  under 
Ramusio,  No.  195'',  gives  the  history  of  an  error  which  culminated 
in  this  work. 


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NICHOLLS  (James  Fawckner)  The  remarkable  life, 
adventures  and  discoveries  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  of  Bristol, 
the  founder  of  Great  Britain's  maritime  power,  discoverer 
of  America,  and  its  first  colonizer.  By  J.  F.  Nicholls, 
city  librarian,  Bristol — London  1869.  (4^7) 

8vo.     a  T  -|-  pp  v-xv  -|-  190  -f"  P""-  "h  map. 

"  He  has  studied  so  lovingly  and  so  persistently  that  he  has 
(Sebastian)  Cabotized  all  his  surroundings." — Stevens,  No.  532  : 
see  also  d'Avezac,  No.  245. 

In  a  communication  to  the  Bristol  Times  and  Mirror,  25  Novem- 
ber, 1869,  Mr.  Nicholls  stated  the  evidence,  suggested  to  him  by 
Mr.  William  George,  Nc.  364,  which  showed  that  the  Harford- 
Biddle  portrait  of  Cabot  could  not  have  been  painted  by  Holbein  : 
see  the  notes  under  Cabot,  No.  61.  (468) 

NICHOLLS  (James  Fawckner)  Bristol  past  and  pre- 
sent by  J.  F.  Nicholls  and  John  Taylor — Bristol  188 1 
(-1882)  (469) 

4to.     3  volumes. 

In  this  work  Mr.  Nicholls  maintained  his  belief  in  a  Cabot  voyage 
in  1494,  stating  that  he  thought  it  very  likely  that  John  Cabot  may 
have  accompanied  Sebastian  in  1497  ;  see  i.  243,  iii.  292-298. 

NICHOLS  (John  Gough)  Literary  Remains  of  King 
Edward  the  Sixth.  Edited  from  his  autograph  manu- 
scripts, with  historical  notes,  and  a  biographical  memoir, 
by  John  Gough  Nichols,  F.S.A.  Printed  for  the  Rox- 
burghe  Club. — London  mdccclvii.  (47^) 

4to.  a  volumes.  2  T  -|-  pp  v-xiii  -|-  pp  i-xx  -\-  xxa-xxi  -f-  i  1 
-j-  pp  xxi-ccclx  -\-  ao8  ;   2  T  -[-  2  11  -|-  pp  209-634  -f-  i  1. 

Mr.  Nichols,  on  pp.  clxxxviii-ix,  made  known  the  letter  to  Sir 
Philip  Hoby  described  as  No.  102. 

O'BRIEN  (Cornelius)  Presidential  Address  on  Cabot's 
Landfall.     By  Most  Rev.  Archbishop  O'Brien.       (470*) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada,  1897, — 
Ottaiva,  1897,  cv-cxxxix  +  2  maps.     Also  issued  separately. 

With  an  audacity  in  conception  and  a  hardihood  in  execution 
quite  as  great  as  that  which  he  so  much  admires  in  John  Cabot,  the 
Archbishop  of  Halifax  presents  arguments  which  convince  him 
that  "  it  is  no  longer  a  theory,  it  is  a  settled  faft,  that  the  landtall 
was  on  Cape  Breton  Island  .  .  .  within  the  Gulf  (of  St.  Lawrence) 
and  that  Cabot  sailed  around  Prince  Edward  Island,  went  north  of 
Anticosti  for  some  distance,  then  turned  and  passed  out  of  the 


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Straits  of  Belle  Isle."  He  does  this,  moreover,  with  a  show  of 
reason  and  an  array  of  proofs — relying  solely  upon  the  most  funda- 
mental sources  of  information,  harmonizing  the  conflifling  data 
into  perfeft  agreement  in  support  of  the  desired  interpretation — 
quite  without  parallel  in  Cabotian  literature.  A  wonderful  keen- 
ness in  surmise  and  in  conjeflure  as  to  possible  ways  towards  truth 
renders  this  by  far  the  most  interesting,  and  perhaps  the  most  sug- 
gestive, of  all  the  quadricentennial  contributions. 

A  suggestion  of  considerable  value,  by  which  he  undertakes  to 
eliminate  Labrador  and  Newfoundland  from  the  landfall  claimants, 
is  that  "  Tanais,"  mentioned  by  Raimondo  di  Soncino,  No.  190, 
was  the  name  applied  by  mediaeval  cartographers  to  a  prosperous  dis- 
trift  frequently  visited  by  Venetian  and  other  Mediterranean  traders, 
situated  on  the  north  shores  of  the  sea  of  Azov.  Inasmuch  as 
Cabot  "  sailed  beyond  Tanais,"  his  landfall  must  have  been,  by  the 
Archbishop's  argument,  south  of  its  latitude,  which  is  48°  n.  on 
the  maps  in  the  Ptolemy  Geographies.  Dr.  Dawson,  No.  319, 
points  out  in  reply  that  "  in  Ptoiem^  's  atlas  the  great  bend  of  the 
Tanais  is  4.°  30  north  of  (the  real  latitude  of)  Bristol,  thus  exclud- 
ing both  Cape  Breton  and  Newfoundland  "  in  favour  of  Labrador. 

Another  achievemeri  'n  this  address  is  the  discovery  of  John 
Cabot's  original  saili:  g  chart  incorporated  into  the  La  Cosa  map. 
No.  84,  with  its  coast  line  misplaced  at  right  angles  to  its  true  di- 
reflion,  and  with  no  pretence  of  harmonizing  Cabot's  scale  with 
that  of  other  portions  of  La  Cosa's  map.  Archbishop  O'Brien 
deduces  the  true  scale  of  Cabot's  portion  of  the  map,  places  this 
coast  in  its  proper  position,  and  thereby  reveals  its  astounding 
accuracy  in  agreement  with  the  most  modern  coast  surveys  and  pilot 
guides.  He  even  succeeds  in  translating  La  Cosa's  adaptations  from 
Cabot's  descriptive  names  so  that  these  harmonize  with  existing 
local  configuration  and  conditions.  He  finds  that  "  Hakluyt  may 
have  had  reason  to  know  that  Enseada  (Deseado)  was  the  name  of 
a  bay  and  river  [see  No.  114]  .  .  .  the  name  given  by  Cabot  to  our 
noble  Canadian  river  [St.  Lawrence]  the  Desired." 

The  narrative  of  a  1556  voyage,  described  under  Burrough, 
No.  18,  is  thought  to  be  an  a6lual  log-book  kept  by  Cabot,  which 
had  become  confused  with  the  records  of  some  different  expedition. 

See  the  note  at  the  end  of  Ramusio,  No.  194. 

OLIVEIRA   E   CASTRO   (Luiz  Joaquim  de). 

The  Spanish  version  of  Southey's  Brazil,  translated  by  Dr. 
Oliveira  e  Castro,  is  described  under  No.  528. 

PARISH  (Woodbine)  Buenos  Ayres  and  the  Provinces 
of  the  Rio  de  la  Plata  :  from  their  discovery  and  conquest 
by  the  Spaniards  to  the  establishment  of  their  political  inde- 
pendence. With  some  account  of  their  present  state, 
trade,  debt,  etc. ;  an  appendix  of  historical  and  statistical 


•}:         I 


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Cabot  Bibliodtapb^ 


159 


I  a  show  of 
most  funda- 
nifling  data 
rpretation — 
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idertakes  to 

II  claimants, 
'JO,  No.  190, 
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been,  by  the 
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N,  No.  319, 
bend  of  the 
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i  Labrador. 
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its  true  di- 
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op   O'Brien 

places  this 
astounding 
;ys  and  pilot 
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akiuyt  may 
he  name  of 
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expedition. 


0- 

ted  by  Dr. 

Provinces 
conquest 
:ical  inde- 
:nt  state, 
statistical 


documents ;  and  a  description  of  the  geology  and  fossil 

monsters   of  the    Pampas.      By    Sir   Woodbine    Parish. 

Second  Edition,  enlarged. — London  1852.  (470 

8vo.     T  +  pp  v-xlii  +  +3+  +  m^P  +  Cabot  port.  +  5  plates. 

The  summary  of  Cabot's  South   American  exploits,  pp.  xxvi, 

i-io,  does  not  appear  in  the  first  edition, — London,  1838  ;  T  +  pp 

iii-xxviii  +  415  +  map  +  5  plates. 

PASINI   (LuiGi)     I  navigatori  al  Polo  Artico — Fenezia 
1880.  (472) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  22. 

"  Consists  mainly  of  a  translation  from  Cheney,  1855,"  No.  16 
— from  FuMAGALLi,  No.  358. 

PAYNE    (Edward  John)     History  of  the  New  World 
called  America  by  Edward  John  Payne  fellow  of  University 


College,  Oxford.     Vol.  \.— Oxford  1892. 


(473) 


8vo.     2  T  +  pp  v-xxxi  +  605. 

The  second  volume  appeared  in  1899. 

Mr.  Payne,  pp.  232-237,  states  that  John  Cabot  Wcis  born  about 
1425,  passed  some  time  in  Seville  and  Lisbon,  and  w.is  at  the  head 
of  the  navigator's  profession  in  England  in  1495,  having  been  em- 
ployed by  Henry  VII.  in  a  negotiation  with  Denmark.  He  supposes 
that  Cabot  departed  from  Bristol  in  1496,  spent  the  wini  r  in  Ice- 
land, whence  he  started  in  the  spring  of  1497,  by  way  of  Greenland, 
for  the  New  Isle,  a  name  which  he  thinks  was  already  well  known 
and  understood  in  England.  Nothing  is  said  of  the  possibility  that 
Cabot  may  have  made  a  second  voyage  in  1498. 

See  the  note  under  Church,  No.  303,  for  an  account  of  the  dis- 
cussion which  followed  the  re;iding  of  Markham's  Fourth  Centenary 
Address,  No.  453.  Mr.  Payne  concurred  in  the  arguments  of  Colonel 
Church,  citing  Gomara  to  prove  that  Cabot  must  have  gone  to 
Iceland.  (+74") 

Mr.  Payne  announced  in  the  English  Historical  Revienv, —  London, 
January,  1898,  xiii.  i8i,  that  because  he  holds  the  views  mentioned 
above,  he  has  "  incurred  odium  and  sustained  some  coarse  personal 
vituperation."     See  the  note  under  Hart,  No.  134.  (474'') 

PEDLEY    (Charles)      The   History  of  Newfoundland 

from  the  earliest  times  to  the  year   i860.     By  the  Rev. 

Charles  Pedley — London^  Longmans,  1863.  (475) 

8vo.     2  T  -j-  pp  v-xix  +  531  +  map. 
Cabot,  4-10. 


PEREZ   PASTOR 
1533  7  1548. 


(Cristobal)      Sebastian 


Caboto  en 
(476) 


t« 


\i 


■I 


1 60  Cabot  Bibliofirapbp 

In  the  Boletin  of  the  Real  Academia  de  la  Historia, — Madrid, 
April,  1893,  xxii.  348-353. 

Four  documents,  described  under  Cabot,  No.  38,  and  Charles 
v.,  Nos.  68-70,  were  printed  here  for  the  first  time,  from  copies 
exhibited  at  the  Columbian  Historical  Exposition  held  in  Madrid 
in  1893. 

PERRY   (William   Stevens)     The  "American"  ser- 
mon preached  in  S.  Paul's  Cathedral,  London,  on  Sunday, 
July  4th,  A.D.    1897,  by  William  Stevens   Perry — Pri- 
vately Printed  1897  (477) 
8vo.     Cover  -I-  T  -f-  pp  3-16. 

PERRY  (William  Stevens)    In  Honorem  Bristoliensium. 

The  "  American  "  Sermon  ...  by  William  Stevens  Perry, 

D.D.   (Oxon.),  LL.D.— 5m/o/,  Old  England..    Printed 

for  Private  Circulation.     1898.  (478) 

Small  4.to.     Cover  +  T  +  pp  3-19. 

Reprinted  by  Mr.  William  George  in  recognition  of  the  glow- 
ing account  herein  set  forth  of  the  far-reaching  consequences  of  the 
expedition  of  John  Cabot  and  the  merchants  of  Bristol. 

PESCHEL  (Oscar  Ferdinand)  Geschichte  des  Zeital- 
ters  der  Entdeckung  von  Oscar  Peschel — Stuttgart  1858 

(479) 
8vo.     T  +  pp  iii-viii  +  681. 
Sebastian  Cabot,  274.-282. 

PESCHEL  (Oscar  Ferdinand)  Geschichte  der  Erd- 
kunde  bis  auf  Alexander  von  Humboldt  und  Karl  Ritter. 
Zweite  vermehrte  und  verbesserte  Auflage  herausgegeben 
von  Dr.  Soph  us  Ruge — Miinchen  1877  (480) 

8vo.    T  -H  pp  832. 

This  is  volume  iv.  in  the  Geschichte  der  Wissenschaften  in 
Deutschland,  Neuere  Zeit,  Herausgegeben  durch  die  Historische 
Commission  bei  der  Miinich.  Konigl.  Academic  derWissenschaften. 

Cabot,  287-319. 

PEZZI   (Carlo  Barrera). 
See  Barrera  Pe-zzi,  No.  251. 

PIERS  (Harry)  The  Cabots  and  their  voyages.  Harry 
Piers,  Asst.  Librarian,  Le2:islative  Library,  Halifax,  N.S. 

(481) 


Cabot  IBibliodrapb^ 


i6i 


:ia, — Madrid, 

ind  Charles 
,  from  copies 
Id  in  Madrid 


lean  ser- 
on  Sunday, 
*erry — Pri- 

(477) 


toliensium. 

vens  Perry, 

/,,    Printed 

(478) 

of  the  glow- 
uences  of  the 


des  Zeital- 
fgart  1858 

(479) 


In  Canadian  History,  Educational  Review  Supplementary  Read- 
ings— St.  John,  N.B.,  June,  1898,  pp.  31-37. 

An  earlier  article  by  Mr.  Piers  has  the  title  :  "  The  discovery  of 
the  continent  by  John  Cabot,  The  Man  Who  Has  Been  Largely 
Lost  in  Obscurity,  and  Lies  in  an  Unknown  Grave.  After  Four 
Hundred  Years,  His  Name  is  Being  Honored  and  His  Great  Deed 
Recognized.  Harry  Piers  Describes  the  Famous  Vo/age  to  the 
New  World,  Analyzes  Various  Theories  about  the  Landfall,  and 
Argues  that  the  Honor  is  Enjoyed  by  Cape  Breton."  This  ap- 
peared in  the  Herald  and  the  E'uening  Mail, — Halifax,  N.S.,  5 
June,  1897  J  The  Witness, —  Montreal,  7  June  ;  and  in  special  Cabot 
editions  of  the  Halifax  Herald  and  Mail  ior  25  June,  1897.     (482) 

The  article  was  illustrated  by  portraits  and  by  large  cuts  of 
"  The  Ship  in  which  Cabot  crossed  the  Atlantic  "  and  of  "  The 
'  Mappe  monde'  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  now  in  Vienna." 

PINKERTON  (John)  A  General  Colleaion  of  the  best 
and  most  interesting  Voyages  and  Travels  in  all  parts  of 
the  World  ;  many  of  which  are  now  first  translated  into 
English.  Digested  on  a  new  plan.  Byjohn  Pinlcerton — 
London^  Longmans,  i8o8(-i8i7)  (483) 

4to.     17  volumes. 

Volumes  xii-xiv,  which  relate  chiefly  to  America,  were  reissued 
in  1819  with  separate  title-pages.  The  first  six  volumes  were  re- 
printed in  Philadelphia,  1810-1812. 

The  account  of  the  Cabot  voyas^es,  xii.  1 58-161,  is  taken  from 
Campbell's  edition  of  Harris,  Na-vigantium  Bibliotheca. 


1 


der  Erd- 
arl  Ritter. 
lusgegeben 
(480) 


POPE   (Joseph)     The  Cabot  Celebration.  (484) 

In  the  Canadian  Magazine, — Toronto,  December,  1896,  viii. 
158-164. 

A  searching  commentary  upon  the  mutually  destructive  declara- 
tions presented  by  the  various  advocates  for  the  quadriccntennial 
celebration. 


ischaften  in 
Historische 
senschaften. 


Harry 

ifax,  N.S. 
(481) 


PORTER  (Edward  Griffin)  Report  of  the  Cabot 
proceedings  at  the  Halifax  meeting  of  the  Royal  Society 
of  Canada,  June  21-25,  1897  (4^5) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  for 
Oftober,  1897, — Boj/o«,  1899,  2nd  series,  xii.  pp.  2-9.  Also  issued 
separately,  8vo,  pp.  10. 

Mr.  Porter's  report  on  his  trip  to  Halifax,  presented  to  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society,  is  in  the  Proceedings  of  tYiat  Society 
for  21  Oftober,  1897, — Worcester,  1898,  new  series,  xii.  pp.  12-14. 

(+86) 
M 


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162 


Cabot  ilBibliodrapbi? 


PORTER  (Edward  Griffin)  The  Cabot  celebrations 
of  1897  {487) 

In  the  Netu  England  Magazine, — Boston,  February,  1898,  xvii. 
653-671.     Also  issued  separately. 

A  comprehensive  account  of  the  proceedings  in  honour  of  the 
Cabot  quadricentennial,  at  Halifax,  Bristol,  St.  John's,  N.F.,  and 
elsewhere,  and  of  the  various  attendant  discussions.  Several  of  the 
illustrations  are  not  easily  accessible  elsewhere. 

An  interesting  autograph  letter  from  Henrv  VII,  to  Philip  of 
Burgundy,  King  of  Castile,  dated  at  Richemont  xxiii  Juliet  (prob- 
ably in  1506),  is  reproduced  in  facsimile,  with  transcription  and 
translation,  pp.  668-669,     It  contains  no  reference  to  Cabot.  (488) 

PORTO   SEGURO   (Baron  de). 

Sec  Varnhagen,  No.  559. 

PRINCE   (Thomas). 

A  reference  to  Cabot  in  The  Chronological  History  of  Nenju  England, 
— Boston,  1736,  is  mentioned  in  a  note  under  Hakluyt's  Galvano, 
No.  115.  (489) 

PROWSE  (Daniel  Woodley)  History  of  Newfound- 
land from  the  English,  Colonial,  and  Foreign  Records  by 
D.  W,  Prowse.  With  a  prefatory  note  by  Edmund  Gosse 
— London^  Macmillan,  1895  (49°) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  iii-xxlii  +  74.x  +  map  +  35  plates. 

Second  edition,  1896:  T  +  pp  iii-x  +  634.  +  map  +   5  plates. 

Judge  Prowse  contends  that  tradition,  Mason's  map,  No.  170, 
and  the  fa6l  that  Cape  Bonavista  is  still  the  land  ordinarily  sighted 
first  by  sailing  vessels  approaching  America  from  Northern  Europe, 
combine  to  prove  that  this  point  was  Cabot's  "  first  land  seen  : " 
pp.  4-17.  Judge  Prowse  has  rendered  a  service  of  the  utmost  value 
in  presenting  the  documentary  evidence  which  proves  the  great  im- 
portance of  English  interests  upon  the  fishing  banks  at  a  very  early 
period. 

PROWSE  (Daniel  Woodley)  The  Discovery  of  New- 
foundland by  John  Cabot  in  1497  (49') 

In  the  Royal  Gazette,— St.  John's,  Newfoundland ;  The  Week, — 
Toronto;  and  the  Chronicle, — Halifax,  June  and  July,  1897.  Also 
printed  separately,  8vo,  pp.  11. 

A  comparison  of  the  aftual  distances  with  those  reported  by 
Cabot  in  1497  convinces  Judge  Prowse  that  Cabot  landed  at  Bona- 
vista and  circumnavigated  Newfoundland,  thus  establishing  its 
claim  to  be  the  "New  Isle." 


,1 


lebrations 

(487) 
1898,  xvii. 

nour  of  the 
I,  N.F.,  and 
:veral  of  the 

to  Philip  of 
ullet  (prob- 
;ription  and 
:abot.  (488) 


^eiv  England, 
sGalvano, 

(489) 

*Jewfound- 
lecords  by 
lund  Gosse 

(490) 

• 

>  +  5  plates, 
ap,  No.  170, 
arily  sighted 
hern  Europe, 

and  seen  : " 
utmost  value 
the  great  im- 

a  very  early 


ry  of  New- 
(49  0 
The  IVeek,— 
1897.     Also 

reported  by 
ded  at  Bona- 
ablishing  its 


Cabot  Siblioorapb)? 


163 


PROW3E  (Daniel  Woodlev)  Cabot's  Landfall.  The 
Claims  of  Newfoundland  Stoutly  Defended,  and  those  of 
Cape  Breton  Strongly  Contested.  Vigorous  Criticism  of 
the  Views  of  Archbishop  O'Brien  and  Mr.  Harry  Piers. 
Appeal  to  History  to  Support  the  Ancient  Colony's  Claims 
to  the  Landfall.  Ey  Judge  Prowse,  St.  John's,  New- 
foundland. (492) 
In  the  Morning  Chronicle, — Halifax,  7  August,  1897. 

PROWSE    (G.   R.   F.)    John  Cabot  and  the  Matthew. 

(493) 
In  Notes  and  S^ueries, — London,   11  September,  1897,  8th  series, 
xii.  208-ZIO. 
Reprinted  a?  : 

PROWSE  (G.  R.  F.)  The  voyage  of  John  Cabot  in 
1497  '°  North  America  the  time  occupied  in  coasting 
also  the  island  of  St.  John.  Mr.  G.  R.  F.  Prowse's  further 
reply  to  Mr.  Henry  Harrisse. — Bradford:  Privately  printed 
for  the  author,  1 897.  (494) 

8vo.    T  4-  pp  l-7- 

Mr.  Prowse's  previous  communication  is  noted  under  Weare, 
No.  561.  (4.94.") 

In  the  Canadian  Gazette  for  26  November,  1896,  Mr.  Prowse 
suggested  a  lighthouse  or  other  landmark  on  Cape  Race  as  the 
most  suitable  memorial  of  the  Cabot  anniversary,  upon  a  location 
which  would  not  arouse  contentious  disputes  in  regard  to  the  land- 
fall.  (495) 

Mr.  Prowse  opened  the  discussion  of  Markham's  Cabot  cen- 
tenary address,  No.  453,  suggesting  that  a  cove  now  known  as  Keels, 
in  Bonavista  Bay,  Newfoundland,  may  have  been  the  spot  where 
Cabot's  Mattfieiv  first  grated  upon  an  American  beach,  just  as 
"King's  Cove  is  evidently  where  an  English  standard  was  set  up," 
and  "  Castileon  is  possibly  the  old  name  of  the  place  now  known  as 
Castle  Bay,  and  may  refer  to  the  island  given  to  Castiglione,  Cabot's 
barber." — Geographical  Journal, — London,  June,  1897,  ix.  615-616. 

(496) 

PROWSE  (G.  R.  F.)  [Cabot  to  Champlain— a  carto- 
logical  determination  of  the  English,  French  &  Iberian 
discoveries  between  Labrador  and  Maine,  1497-1633.  by 
G.  R.  F.  Prowse.  Illustrated  by  facsimile  and  sketch 
maps — London^  Henry  Stevens  Son  and  Stiles.]  (In  pre- 
paration for  the  Press.)  (497) 


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164  Cabot  JBibliodrapbi? 

Large  8vo.     (About  400  pp.) 

This  work  is  designed  to  be  an  elaborate  analytical  study  of  the 
maps  representing  Newfoundland  and  its  neighbourhood. 

PRYCE   (George)     Sebastian  Cabot.  (498) 

In  Notes  and  Slueries, — London,  20  February,  1858,  and  series,  v. 

'54->SS-  ,  .  ... 

An  attack  on  the  evidence  which  assigns  a  birthplace  in  Bristol 

to  Sebastian  Cabot.     See  note  under  George,  No.  363. 

PRYCE  (George)  Fa<a  versus  Fidion.  A  Descent 
among  writers  on  Bristol  History  and  Biography,  &c. 
— Bristol  1858.  (499) 

i2mo.     T  +  pp  3-109. 

On  pp.  91-92  there  is  an  account  of  the  tradition  which  claims 
that  the  "Dun  cow's  rib"  preserved  in  the  parish  church  of  St. 
Mary  RedclifFe  at  Bristol,  was  the  rib  of  a  cow  whale,  which  was 
brought  to  England  from  America  by  Sebastian  Cabot. 

PRYCE  (George)  A  Popular  History  of  Bristol,  anti- 
quarian, topographical,  and  descriptive,  from  the  earliest 
period  to  the  present  time,  with  biographical  notices  of 
eminent  natives  and  residents,  impartially  written — Bristol 
1861.  (500) 

8vo.     T  -I-  pp  iii-xviii  4-  622. 

The  reasons  for  believing  that  Sebastian  Cabot  was  born  in 
Venice  and  not  in  Bristol  are  on  pp.  552-553.  The  story  of  the 
Dun  cow's  rib  is  on  p.  370. 

QUARITCH  (Bernard). 

See  the  note  174*  under  MOLINEUX. 

ROMAGNOSI  (Gian-Domenico)  Memoria  intorno  a 
Sebastiano  Cabota,  cui  si  e  aggiunto  un*  occhiata  sulla 
storia  delle  scoperte  inarittime  e  del  document!  estratti 
dagli  Archivi  d'Inghilterra,  e  pubblicato  per  la  prima  volta. 
Londra  1831.  (S02) 

In  the  Annali  uni'versali  di  statistica,  economia  pubblica,  storia, 
viaggi  e  commercio, — Milan,  July-September,  1832,  xxxiii.  62-72. 
Title  from  Fumagalli,  No.  358. 

REUMONT  (Alfred  Von)  I  due  Caboto  cenni  storico- 
critici  di  AfFredo  Reumont — Firenze  i88o.  (5^3 ) 


>tudy  of  the 

(498) 
nd  series,  v. 

e  in  Bristol 


Descent 
aphy,  &c. 

(499) 

hich  claims 
lurch  of  St. 
,  which  was 


stol,  anti- 
tie  earliest 
notices  of 
1 — Bristol 

(500) 

'as  born  in 
story  of  the 


intorno  a 
liata  sulla 
ti  estratti 
ima  volta. 
(502) 

i/iVa,  storia, 
ii.  62-7Z. 


II  storico- 
(503) 


Cabot  JSiblioorapb^ 


16s 


8vo.     T  +  pp  3-1 E. 

A  discussion  of  Pasini,  No.  472,  with  comments  on  the  divergent 
ideas  ad-'anced  by  modern  writers  respecting  the  Cabots,  and  with 
suggestive  references  to  the  Continental  literature. 

RICCI  (Giovanni)  Giovanni  Caboto  Quarto  centenario 
della  scoperta  del  continente  Nord-Americano  (504) 

In  the  BoUettinooi  the  Societa  Geografica  Italiana, — Roma,  1897, 
iii.  series  (anno  xxxi,  vol.  xxxiv),  x.  224-235,  270-285  -|-  map  + 
portrait. 

An  admirable  account  of  the  exercises  at  Halifax,  and  of  the 
latest  ideas  concerning  the  Cabots. 

RICCI    (Giovanni)     Per  Giovanni  e  Sebastiano  Caboto 

(505) 
In  the  Giornale  Ligustico,  July-06lober,  1897,  xxii.  fasc.  7-10. 
(C.  E.     See  note,  No.  343*.) 

ROBINSON  (Conway)  An  account  of  discoveries  in 
the  west  until  1519,  and  of  voyages  to  and  along  the 
Atlantic  coast  of  North  America,  from  1520  to  1573. 
Prepared  for  "  The  Virginia  Historical  and  Philosophical 
Society"  by  Conway  Robinson — Richmond  1848       (506) 

8vo.     T  -t-  pp  iii-xv  +  491, 

There  is  an  attempt  to  reconcile  the  conflifting  dates  1497  and 
1498  by  an  exposition  of  the  changes  in  the  calendar  since  that 
time,  on  pp.  81-93. 

ROSS  (William)  One  Hundred  Years  Ago.  The  Pro- 
posed Cabot  Celebration.  Was  Cape  Breton  His  First 
Landing  Place  in  North  America  ?  Authorities  Quoted. 
By  Hon.  Wm.  Ross.  (507) 

In  the  Morning  Chronicle, — Halifax,  1  and  4  January,  1897. 

An  examination  of  Dr.  Dawson's  1894  sketch  of  the  '  -.<  4  map 
enabled  Mr.  Ross  to  "  trace  with  the  greatest  certainty  ,.  "oast 
line  as  laid  down  with  wonderful  accuracy  from  Ingonish  to  ape 
North.  .  .  ,  The  fail  of  the  sailor  being  at  the  mast  head  at  the 
early  hour  of  5  a.m.  proves  that  they  expe£led  to  sight  land  and 
they  were  looking  for  it  in  the  right  direftion."  The  landfall  is 
located  at  Sugar  Loaf,  near  Cape  North,  Cape  Breton  Island. 

ROUX  DE  ROCHELLE  Dissertation  sur  les  voyages 
de  Sebastien  Cabot,  par  M.  Roux  de  Rochelle.  (508) 


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In  the  Bulletin  de  la  Societe  de  Geographic, — Paris^  April,  iSji, 
xvii.  197.217. 

Based  upon  Biddle. 

ROYAL  SOCIETY  OF  CANADA  Memoires  et 
comptes  rendus  .  .  .  Proceedings  and  Transactions  of 
the  Royal  Society  of  Canada  second  series  volume  iii 
meeting  of  June  1897 — Ottawa  1897  (5^9) 

Large  8vo.  2  T  -f-  pp  5  -|-  cxciii  +  133  +  +5°  +  77  +  *" 
-j-  S  maps. 

The  Cabot  Celebration,  xx-xxvi,  xciii-cxciii ;  see  also  Barker, 
Davies,  Dawson,  O'Brien,  Porter,  and  Thacher. 

Various  essays  in  other  volumes  of  the  Memoires  .  .  .  ami  Trans- 
aSiions  are  described  under  BouRiNOT,  Fleming,  Ganong, 
Harrisse,  No.  397,  and  Harvey. 

RUGE  (SopHus)  Geschichte  des  Zeitalters  der  Entdeck- 
ungen.     Von  Dr.  Sophus  Ruge — Berlin  1881.  (S^O 

8vo.     2  T  -}-  pp  542  -|-  10  maps  -{*  '*  plates. 

In  the  AUgemeine  Geschichte  in  Einzeldarstellungen,  herausge- 
geben  von  Wilhelm  Oncken,  ix. 

The  account  of  Cabot's  search  for  the  north-west  passage  is  based 
on  Harrisse,  No.  383, — Parisy  1882  ;  despite  the  testimony  of  the 
imprints. 

An  Italian  translatioT>  is  reported  : 

Storia  dell'  epoca  delle  scoperta  .  .  .  trad,  del  Prof.  D.  Valbusa, 
Milano,  Vallardi,  1886.  (512) 

T-fpp  651. 

This  torms  one  of  a  series  of  translations  from  Oncken. 

RUGE  (Sophus)  Die  Entdeckungs-geschichte  der  neuen 
Welt.     Von  Piof.  Dr.  Sophus  Ruge.  (5' 3) 

In  the  Hamburgiiche  Festschrift  %ur  Erinnerung  an  die  Entdeckung 
Amerika's.  Herausgegeben  vom  Wissenschaftlichen  Ausschuss  des 
Komites  fur  die  Amerika-feier, — Hamburg,  1892  ;  i.  1-131,  4to. 

Sebastian  Cabot  is  credited  with  a  voyage  to  America  in  1503, 
pp.  60-64. 


RUGE  (Sophus)  Die  Entwickelung  der  Kartographie 
von  Amerika  bis  1570.  Festschrift  zur  400-jahrigen 
Feier  der  Entdeckung  Amerikas  von  Dr.  Sophus  Ruge 
Mit  32  Kartchen  auf  2  Tafeln. — Gotha :  Justus  Perthes. 


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Dr.  A.  Supan. 

Se:  the  note  to  Desliens,  No.  93.  The  Cabot  154.4  map  is 
described  on  pp.  66-67. 

RUGE  (SoPHUs)  Die  Entdeckung  Nordamerikas  durch 
Giovanni  Caboto  im  Sommer  1497.  ^°"  Sophus  Ruge. 
Dresden.  (5 '5) 

In  Globus^  1897,  Ixxii.  pp.  1-3.     Also  issued  separately. 

Professor  Ruge's  edition  of  Peschel  is  described  as  No.  4.80. 

RUNDALL    (Thomas)      Narratives  of  voyages  towards 

the  north-west,  in  search  of  a  passage  to  Cathay  and  India. 

1496  to  1 63 1.     With  selections  from  the  early  records  of 

the  honourable  the  East  India  Company  ...  by  Thomas 

Rundall — London^  the  Hakluyt  Society,  m.dccc.xlix. 

(516) 

8vo.     z  T  -j-  pp  vi  -^  XX  -j-  259  -|-  2  maps  -|-  plate. 
The   voyage  of  Sebastian  Cabota,    1496,   is  paraphrased  fn-m 
Hakluyt,  pp.  3-6. 

RUSSELL  (Herbert)  The  Coming  of  Cabot.  Story  of 
the  Intrepid  Voyageur  Who  Came  to  America  Pour 
Hundred  Years  Ago  and  Whose  Memory  Halifax  Honors 
Today.  First  European  Who  Landed  on  the  Cape  Breton 
Coast  Historically  Proved  to  be  the  Discov^erer  of  the 
Continent.  (S'Z) 

In  the  Evening  Echo, — Halifax,  24  June,  1897. 

SABIN  (Joseph). 

The  collations  and  descriptions  in  A  DiSiionary  of  Booh  relating 
to  America, — Nenu  York,  i868(-i892),  are  referred  to  in  the  notes 
under  Eden,  Gomara,  Hakluyt,  Herrera,  Martyr,  Orte- 
Lius,  Oviedo,  Purchas,  Ramusio,  and  Ruysch.  The  editorial 
work  has  been  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Wilberforce  Eames,  now 
Keeper  of  Printed  Books  in  the  New  York  Public  Library,  since 
Mr.  Sabin's  death.  (518) 

ST.  JOHN'S,  NEWFOUNDLAND. 

The  speeches  at  the  laying  of  the  corner  sione  of  the  Cabot 
Memorial  Tower  on  Signal  Hill,  St.  John's,  N.F.,  arc  mentioned 
under  Harvey,  Howley,  and  Thorburn. 


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A  Cabot  Souvenir  Number,  with  headlines  "  Jubilee  Souvenir 
Number,"  was  published  by  Devine  and  O'Mara,  St.  John's,  N.F., 
"at  the  request  of  a  number  of  sporting  gentlemen  and  friends 
generally,"  containing  a  report  of  the  anniversary  proceedings  on 
June  2»-»5,  a  poem  by  Isabella,  "John  Cabot's  Discovery,"  and 
short  stories  by  H.  W.  Lc  M.  and  C.  O'Neill  Conroy,  based  upon 
supposititious  Cabotian  events.     So  far  as  has  been  learned,  this  is 


ipposittti 
the  first  deliberate  use  of  Cabot  in  avowed  fiction. 


(5'9) 


SCHANZ  (Georg)  Englische  HandelspolitikgegenEnde 
des  Mittelalters  mit  besonderer  Beriicksichtigung  der  Zeit- 
alters  der  beiden  ersten  Tudors  Heinrich  VII.  und  Hein- 
rich  VIII.  von  Dr.  Georg  Schanz — Leipzig  1881.     (520) 

8vo.     2  volumes.     1  T  -f-  PP  v-xix  -|-  684  ;  xv  4-  ^7*- 
The  account  of  Cabot,  i.  315-310,  is  based  on  HelLWAld,  No. 
4.07,  and  is  supplemented  by  an  Excurs  iiber  die  angebliche  Ent- 
deckungsfahrt  Sebastian  Cabots  im  Jahre  1517,  i.  677.680. 

SCOTT  (Edward). 

See  Kemys,  No.  152,  for  the  translation  of  "the  Cabot  Roll  " 
by  the  Keeper  of  Manuscripts  in  the  British  Museum. 

SEWALL  (John  Smith)  The  value  and  significance  of 
Cabot's  discovery  to  the  world.     By  Prof.  John  S.  Sewall. 

(521) 
In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society, — Portland, 
1897,  viii.  427-438. 

A  clerical  and  pi£luresque  account  of  certain  possible  trains  of 
events  which  might  have  resulted  if  Cabot  had  not  sailed  west- 
ward in  1497  and  if  in  consequence  Europeans  had  continued  in 
absolute  ignorance  of  the  existence  of  Northern  America. 

SEYER  (Samuel)  Memoirs  historical  anc  t.'pographical 
of  Bristol  and  it's  neighbourhood,  from  the  earliest  period 
down  to  the  present  time.  By  the  Rev**  Samuel  Seyer — 
Bristol  i82i(-i823)  (522) 

4to.      2  volumes.      2  T  -}-  pp  5-53S  -^-  7  4"  '"^  +  * '  plates  ; 


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i-4-9-f-il-{-i5  plates. 

The   account  of  Cabot  is  in  volume  ii.  208-210;  see  note  to 
Cabot,  No.  61. 

SHIPLEY  (John  B.  and  Marie  A.,  forn-icrly  Brown) 
The  English  rediscovery  and  colonization  of  America  by 
John  B.  and  Marie  A.  Shipley. — London.  (5^3) 


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8vo.     T -f-pp  ii'-xvi -f- iS>' 

An  effort  to  counterail  the  popular  tendency  to  ascribe  all  the 
credit  of  American  discovery  to  Columbus. 

SHIPLEY   (John  B.)     Bristol  in  the  time  of  Cabot.  (524) 

In  Harpers  Magazine, —  Nrw  York,  February,  1893,  Ixxxvi. 
(European  edition,  xxv),  428-4.38. 

The  illustrations  were  seleikd  by  Mr.  L.  Acland  Taylor  of 
Bristol. 

SMITH   (Charles  Card). 

See  the  note  under  Cabot,  No.  558,  for  Mr.  Smith's  part  in  the 
publication  of  the  legends  from  the  Cabot  1544  map  in  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  11  February,  1891, 
2nd  series,  vi.  305-339. 

SMITH    (George)    John  Cabot  (524*) 

An  occasional  poeir.,  in  the  H^estern  Daily  Press — Bristol^  14 
June,  1897. 

SOCIETA  GEOGRAFICA  ITALIANA  Studjb.blio- 
grafici  e  biografici  sullastoria  della  geografia  in  Italia  pubbli- 
cati  per  cura  della  Deputazione  Ministeriale  instituita  presso 
la  Societa  Geografica  Italiana — Roma  1875.  (5^5) 

Large  8vo.     *  T  -j-  pp  vii-xvi  ^  a-/  -|-  i  1  +  5'°  4"  9  niaps, 
A  useful  list  of  authorities  is  appended  to  the  account  of  the 
Cabots,  100-105. 

SOCIETA  GEOGRAFICA  ITALIANA  TerzoCon- 
greso  geografico  inter,  .azionale  Tenuto  a  Venezia  dal  15 
al  22  Settembre  188 1 — Roma^  la  Societa,  mdccclxxxii. 

(526) 

Large  8vo.     2  volumes. 

There  is  a  report  of  the  exercises  and  speeches  at  the  unveiling 
of  busts  to  Fra  Mauro  and  John  Cabot  in  i.  33-37  ;  see  No.  529. 

SOLIMBERGO   (Giovanni). 

The  speech  of  the  Consul  General  of  Italy  at  Halifax,  represent- 
ing the  Italian  Geographical  Society,  at  the  Cabot  meeting  of  the 
Royal  Society  of  Canada,  Halifax,  24  June,  1897,  is  in  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  that  meeting,  No.  509,  pp.  c-cii.  An  Italian  version  was 
printed  in  the  BoUettino  of  the  Societa  Geografica  Italiana,  3rd  series, 
X.  285-287.  (517) 


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SOUTHEY  (Robert)  History  of  Brazil:  by  Robert 
Southey.     Part  the  First — London^  Longmans,  18  lo. 

(528) 

4.10.     T  +  pp  iii-xvi  +  659. 

Volume  ii.,  1817  ;  iii.,  18 19.  There  is  a  Spanish  edition,  trans- 
lated by  Dr.  L.  J.  de  Oliveira  e  Castro,  with  notes  by  Dr.  J.  C. 
Fernandez  Pinheiro ;  6  volumes,  8vo, — Rio  de  Janeiro  (Paris 
printed)  1862. 

The  account  of  Cabot's  voyage  along  the  coast  of  Brazil  to  La 
Plata,  i.  SI-S75  gives  an  excellent  idea  of  what  could  safely  be 
deduced  from  the  historical  evidence  available  at  the  beginning  of 
the  nineteenth  century. 

SPARKS  (Jared). 

The  Life  of  Cabot  in  Sparks's  "  Library  of  American  Biography  " 
is  described  under  Hayward,  No.  406, 

STEFANI  (Federico)  Inaugurazioni  di  un  busto  a 
Giovanni  Caboto  .  .  .  nella  loggia  interna  del  Palazzo 
Ducale  di  Venezia.  (529) 

In  the  Terzo  Congreso  Geografico  Internazionale,  No.  526,  volume 
primo,  Notizie  e  rendiconti, — Roma,  1882  ;  pp.  33-37. 

See  Sanuto,  No.  210. 

STEVENS  (Henry)  Historical  and  geographical  notes 
1453-1869  By  Henry  Stevens — New  Tork  1869         (530) 

8vo.     T  +  pp  3-40*. 

This  essay  was  included  as  part  li.  in  T/ie  Tehuantepec  Rail-way 
its  Location  Features  and  Ad'vantages — Neiio  York,  1869.  It  was 
reprinted  with  an  explanatory  preface,  containing  considerable  re- 
vision and  emendation,  in  the  American  Journal  of  Science — Neiu 
Haven,  1869,  2nd  series,  xlviii.  299-330,  A  few  copies  were 
printed  separately,  and  issued  with  photolithographic  facsimiles  of 
the  more  important  early  maps,  as : 

STEVENS  (Henry)  Historical  and  geographical  notes  on 
the  earliest  discoveries  in  America  1453-1530  with  com- 
ments on  the  earliest  charts  and  maps  j  the  mis  takes  of 
the  early  navigators  &  the  blunders  of  the  geographers 
...  By  Henry  Stevens — New  Haven  and  London  1869 

(531) 
8vo.     z  T  -f-  pp  5-54  4*  16  maps  on  6  sheets. 
The  serious  portion  of  a  review  of  this  work,  in  the  Historical 
Magazine, — Morrisania,  Neiv  York,  August,  1869,  znd  series,  vi. 


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106-109,  presents  the  evidence  which  conflifls  with  Mr.  Stevens' 
theory  that  the  maps  of  La  Cosa  and  Ruysch  atford  no  proof 
that  the  Cabots  examined  the  American  coast  south  of  Newfound- 
land. 

STEVENS  (Henry)  Sebastian  Cabot- John  Cabot=0 
Endeavored  by  Henry  Stevens — Boston^  March  1870 

(532) 

izmo.    T  +  I  1  +  pp  5-32. 

This  little  essay,  in  Mr.  Stevens'  best  style,  appeared  in  the 
Boston  Daily  Ad'vertiser,  Sunday  Supplement,  19  March,  1870,  as 
the  first  of  a  series  on  "  Our  Golden  Candlesticks."  A  consider- 
able extract  from  it  was  reprinted  in  Mr.  Stevens'  Bibliotbeca  Historica, 
"or a  catalogue  of  5000  volumes  of  books  and  manuscripts  ...  to 
be  sold  by  auflion  in  Boston,  5-8  April,  1870,"  pp.  230-23 1. 

The  essay  is  a  review  of  Nicholls,  No.  467.  There  is  an  inter- 
esting suggestion,  pp.  18-19,  ^^at  Cabot  may  have  consulted  with 
Columbus  in  Spain,  during  the  interval  between  the  granting  of  the 
Letters  Patent  in  the  spring  of  14.96  and  the  sailing  of  the  Matthew 
in  1497,  or  possibly  during  the  winter  following  Cabot's  retuin 
from  his  first  voyage  to  America. 

STEVENSON  (William)  Historical  Sketch  of  the  pro- 
gress of  discovery,  navigation,  and  commerce,  from  the 
earliest  records  to  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  cen- 
tury. By  William  Stevenson — Edinburgh^  Blackwood, 
MDCCcxxiv  (533) 

8vo.     2  T  -f-  pp  iii-viii  +  654. 
This  is  vol.  xviii  in 

A  general  history  and  colle£lion  of  voyages  and  travels,  arranged 

in  systematic  order  ...  by  Robert  Kerr — Edinburgh,  1811- 

1824.     8vo.      18  volumes.  (S34) 

Stevenson,  p.  353,  suggests  that  if  Cabot  voyaged  to  67 1"  north, 

he  may  have  sailed  along  the  coast  of  Greenland. 

STRYPE  (John)  Ecclesiastical  Memorials ;  Relating 
chiefly  to  Religion,  and  the  Reformation  of  it,  under  King 
Henry  VIII.  King  Edward  VI.  and  Queen  Mary  the  First. 
With  Original  Papers,  Records,  &c.  By  John  Strype — 
London  1721.  (535) 


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Folio.     3  volumes. 

The  first  volume  was  reprinted  in    1733.     There  was  .. 
edition  '•  with  large  Appendices" — Oxford,  1822  ;  8vo,  6  volu 


new 
lumes. 
The  index  to  this  edition  refers  to  various  mentions  of  Cabot's 
career  in  England,  some  of  which,  ii.  190  and  402  in  the  1721 


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edition,   state   fails   which    have   not   been  found  in  any  earlier 
authority. 

SYMES  (Robert  H.). 

The  speech  of  Sir  Robert  Symes,  Mayor  of  Bristol,  at  the  open- 
ing of  the  Cabot  Memorial  Tower,  6  September,  1898,  is  men- 
tioned in  a  note  under  Bristol,  No.  283.  (SS^) 

TANNER  (Henry  S.). 

Tanner's  NortA  American  Atlas ^ — Philadelpbia,  1825,  applies  the 
name  "  Cabotia"  to  Cape  Breton  and  Newfoundland.  (S37) 

TARDUCCI  (Francesco)  La  Patria  di  Giovanni 
Caboto  (538) 

In  the  Re'vista  Storica  Italiana, — Torino,  1892,  ix.  fasc.  1.  Also 
issued  separately,  pp.  39. 

An  appendix  notes  sixteen  distinft  ways  in  which  Cabot's  name 
is  spelled  in  the  sources. 

Printed  in  advance  from  : 

TARDUCCI  (Francesco)  R.  Deputazione  Veneta  di 
Storia  Patria  Di  Giovanni  e  Sebastiano  Caboto.  Memorie 
raccolte  e  documentate  da  F.  Tarducci — Venezia  1892 

(539) 

8vo.     T  -{-  I  1  -H  pp  429.     Also  issued  separately,  with  a  dedi- 
cation addressed  to  the  Contessa  Gabriella  Spalletti. 
Translated  as  : 

TARDUCCI   (Francesco)    John   and   Sebastian    Cabot. 
Biographical   notice,   vi^ith    documents.       By   Francesco 
Tarducci.     Translated  from  Italian  by  Henry  F.  Brown- 
son — Detroit^  Brownson,  1893  (54°) 
8vo.     T  +  pp  viii  +  409  -I-  Port. 

TARDUCCI   (Francesco)     Per  Sebastiano  Caboto  e  per 

la  verita  della  storia.  (54i) 

In  the  Ateneo  Veneto, — Venexia,  May-June,  1894,  18th  series,  i. 
291-310. 

A  reply  to  Duro,  No.  347. 

TARDUCCI  (Francesco)  H.  Harrisse  e  la  fama  di  Se- 
bastiano Caboto  (542) 

In  the  Revista  Storica  Italiana, — Torino,  1894,  ix.  fasc.  iv.  Also 
issued  separately,  8vo,  pp.  13.     (C.  E.     See  note  to  No.  343*.) 


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Harrisse  (543) 

In  the  Nuo-vo  Archiuio  Feneto, — f^enezia,  1 8 97,  xiv.  58-117.  Also 
issued  separately,  8vo,  pp.  60.     (C.  E.     See  note,  No.  343*.) 

TAYLOR  (John)     Bristol,  England.  (544) 

In  the  Encyclopadia  Britannica,  ninth  edition, — Edinburgh,  1875, 
iv.  3+8-352. 

This  article,  which  is  said  to  have  been  written  by  the  sometime 
Bristol  librarian,  Mr.  Taylor,  contains,  on.  p.  350,  an  extra£^  from 
"  a  hitherto  impublished  local  chronicle,"  describing  the  Cabot 
discovery.  J<"or  notes  on  the  dispute  regarding  its  value,  see 
Harrisse,  Prowse,  and  Weare.  The  Chronicle  is  described 
under  Toby,  No.  222. 

See  notes  under  Bristol,  No.  284,  and  Nicholls,  No.  469. 

TAYLOR  (L.  Acland). 

See  the  note  under  Shipley,  No.  524. 

THACHER  (John  Boyd)  The  continent  of  America  its 
discovery  and  its  baptism  an  essay  on  the  nomenclature  of 
the  old  continents  a  critical  and  bibliographical  inquiry 
into  the  naming  of  America  and  into  the  growth  of  the 
cosmography  of  the  new  world  ...  by  John  Boyd 
Thacher — New  York^  Benjamin,  1896.  (545) 

4to.     2  T  -|-  pp  v-xvii  -j-  271  -}-  18  maps  -|-  8  plates. 

Especially  valuable  for  the  careful  facsimiles  of  the  more  im- 
portant maps  of  the  jarly  sixteenth  century.  The  use  which  La 
COSA  may  have  made  of  Cabot's  charts  is  suggested  on  pp.  200- 
202. 

THACHER  (John  Boyd)  The  Cabotian  Discovery.  By 
John  Boyd  Thacher  (54^) 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada, — Otta'wa, 
1897,  2nd  series,  iii.  279-307  -f-  plate.  Also  issued  separately  with 
7  additional  facsimile  illustrations. 

An  interesting  illustration  of  the  variety  of  arguments  by  which 
the  orthodox  Cabotian  conclusions  can  be  reached, from  conscientious 
study  of  the  sources. 

THORBURN   (Robert)     In  Memoriam  John  Cabot  .  .  . 
Composed  for  the  St.  John's,  Newfoundland,  Cabot  Cele- 
bration by  Sir  Robert  Thorburn.  (547) 
In  the  E'vening  Herald,  St.  John's,  N.F..,  25  June,  1897. 


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Italiana — Modena  ijji-iygs.  (548) 

4to.     1 1  volumes. 

Reprinted — Modeaa,  1787-17^4;   Venice,  »795-96,  and  Milan, 
1822-1826. 
There  is  a  brief  memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot  in  vol.  vii.  zo9-2io. 

TRAILL   (Henry  Duff). 

The  account  of  the  Cabots  in  Mr.  Traiil's  Social  England  is  de- 
scribed under  Beazley,  No.  257. 

TRUAX  (Charles  H.)  Opinion  by  the  court,  in  case 
of  Mortimer  et  al.  v.  New  York  Elevated  Railroad  Com- 
pany et  al.  (549) 

In  National  Reporter  System,  Neiv  York  Supplement, — St.  Paul, 
Minnesota,  1889,  vi.  898-903.  Also  in  Reports  of  Cases  in  the 
Superior  Court  of  the  City  of  Ne'w  Tork,  by  Samuel  Jones  and  James 
C,  Spencer, — Ne-iv  Tork,  1890,  Ivii.  {Jones  and  Spencer,  xxv.),  259- 

The  court,  having  carefully  examined  Bancroft,  No.  24.8, 
Bryant  and  Gay,  No.  288,  and  especially  Mrs.  Martha  J. 
Lamb's  History  of  Neiv  York,  expressed  the  legal  decision  that  as  a 
result  of  Cabot's  li'scovery  of  North  America  in  14.97  on  behalf  of 
England,  the  English  common  law,  and  not  the  Dutch  Roman  law 
which  lurked  in  the  hold  of  Henry  Hudson's  vessel  when  he  first 
explored  Manhattan  bay,  determined  the  relation  of  abutters  to  the 
use  and  enjoyment  of  the  public  streets.  Heavy  damages  were 
therefore  awarded  against  the  Elevated  Railway  Company. 

TWISS  (Travers)  Christopher  Columbus  and  Sebastian 
Cabot.  (550) 

In  the  Nautical  Magazine, — London,  July- August,  1876,  xlv. 
577-587.  675-684. 

See  t'.t  note  unler  Mychell,  No.  176.  A  useful  study  of  the 
Cabots  in  Englan^l. 

TYTLER  (Patrick  Fraser)  Historical  view  of  the 
progress  of  discovery  on  the  more  northern  coasts  of 
America,  from  the  earliest  period  to  the  present  time,  by 
Patrick  Fraser  Tytler  .  .  .  To  which  is  added  an  ap- 
pendix, containing  remarks  on  a  late  memoir  of  Sebastian 
Cabot,  with  a  vindication  of  Richard  Hakluyt — Edinburgh 
MDCCCXxxii  (551) 

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No.  ix.  in  the  "Edinburgh  Cabinet  Library"  ;  reissued  in  1833  : 
reprinted  as  No.  liii.  of  "  The  Family  Library " — Neiv  Tori, 
Harpers,  1833  ;  reissued  1836;  2T-J-PP5-360-J-  map,  i2mo. 

The  first  chapter,  containing  an  account  of  Cabot's  explorations, 
pp.  17-4.2,  was  reprinted  in 

The  Northern  Coasts  of  America,  and  the  Hudson  Bay  Terri- 
tories— London,  mdcccliu.  (553) 

8vo.     2  T  -j-  pp  iii-vi  -j-  4.09  -|-  map  -}-  7  plates. 

The  material  employed  by  Biddle,  No.  261,  was  used  by  Mr. 
Tytler  to  prove  that  the  entire  credit  for  the  discovery  of  1497  be- 
longed to  John  Cabot.  The  appendix,  pp.  417-444,  is  a  very  able 
reply  to  Biddle's  strictures  on  Hakluyt,  as  tested  by  the  evidence 
which  shows  that  John  Cabot  "  projected,  fitted  out,  and  conducted 
the  expedition."  The  necessity  of  vindicating  the  trustworthiness 
of  Hakluyt  leads  Mr.  Tytler  to  declare  that  "  it  is  not  possible  to 
doubt "  the  knighting  of  John  Cabot. 

Mr.  Biddle  is  said  to  have  written  some  "  Remarks  on  the  re- 
vised edition  of  the  Edinburgh  Cabinet  Library,"  which  may  have 
been  printed.  (55+) 

VARALDO   (Ottavio)     La  Patria  di  Giovanni  Caboto 

(555) 

In  La  Libera  Parola  di  Pietro  Sbarbaro, — Roma,  5  June,  1892,  i. 
5.     From  FuMAGALLi,  No.  358. 

VARNHAGEN  (Francisco  Adolpho  de  ;  Baron  de 
PoRio  Seguro)  Historia  geral  do  Brazil  isto  i  do  des- 
cobrimento,  colonisa^ao,  legisla^ao  e  desenvolvimento  deste 
Estado,  hoje  imperio  independente,  escripta  em  presen9a 
de  muitos  documentos  autenticos  recolhidos  nos  archivos 
do  Brazil,  de  Portugal,  da  Hespanha  e  da  Hollanda,  Por 
Um  socio  do  Instituto  Historico  do  Brazil,  Natural  de 
Sorocaba  1854  Acha-se  no  Rio  de  Janeiro — Madrid  1854 

(556) 
8vo.     2  volumes.     2  T  -|-  pp  v-xvi  -j-  479  -|-  Errata  (2)  -\- 

3upplemento  48 1-496  -{-15  plates  ;   2  T  -|-  pp  v-xxiii  -j-  (8)  -^  484 

-j-  (5)  -|-  12  plates. 

The  letter  of  Affonso,  No.  2,  is  in  i.  439.    There  are  references 

to  Cabot's  visit  to  the  coast  of  Brazil  in  i.  38-43. 

See  the  notes  under  D'Avezac,  No.  240,  Garcia,  No.  116,  and 

Ramirez,  No.  191. 

VASCANO   (Antonio). 

S'.  Vascano's  Ensayo  biogrdfico  del  cosmografo  Juan  de  la  Cosa  is 
described  under  Cosa,  No.  85. 


176 


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VAUGHAN  (William). 

Vaughan's  Golden  Fleece  is  described  under  Mason,  No.  171. 

WARDEN   (David  Baillie). 
See  note  under  Biddle,  No.  266. 

WASHBURN  (Charles  Ames)  The  History  of  Para- 
guay, with  Notes  of  Personal  Observations,  and  Reminis- 
cences of  diplomacy  under  difficulties.  By  Charles  A. 
Washburn. — Boston  1871.  (557) 

8vo.  2  volumes.  T  -{-  pp  iii-xii  -|-  571  ;  xv  -|-  627  -^  2  maps 
-f-  +  plates. 

There  is  a  useful  summary  of  the  standard  Spanish  authorities  on 
Cabot's  La  Plata  experiences,  i.  3-15. 

WEARE  (George  Edward)  Cabot's  discovery  of  North 
America  by  G.  E.  We^re — London  1897  (55^) 

8vo.     2  T  -|-  pp  v-xi  -|-  343  4"  '*  maps  and  plates. 

The  appendices  contain  "  Plato''  Story  of  the  Lost  Tsland  of 
Atlantis,"  "The  Latin  Text  of  e  Bull  of  Pope  Alexander  VI, 
dated  the  4">  Day  of  May  1493,"  and  "  Account  of  the  CoUeflors 
of  the  Bristol  Customs."  The  last  is  described  under  Kemys, 
No.  153.  The  most  valuable  portion  of  Mr.  Weare's  volume  con- 
sists of  the  original  texts  and  English  translations  of  the  various 
Cabot  documents.  Such  of  these  as  were  accessible  in  London  are 
printed  in  most  scrupulous  reproduflion  of  the  original  phraseology 
and  caligraphy.  Improvements  were  also  made  in  the  translations 
which  he  adapted  to  his  purposes.  Extended  quotations  from 
Tarducci,  Kohl,  D'Avezac,  Biddle,  Harrisse,  Dawson, 
and  Quaritch's  Sale  Catalogues  make  this  volume  an  excellent 
medium  for  acquaintance  with  the  charafteristics  of  these  authorities. 

WEARE  (George  Edward)  John  Cabot  and  the 
Matthew  (559) 

In  Notes  and  S^uenes, — London,  17  July,  1897,  8th  series,  xii.  49- 
51.     Reprinted  as  : 

WEARE  (George  Edward)  Cabot's  discovery  of  North 
America.  The  dates  connedled  with  the  voyage  of  the 
Matthew,  of  Bristol.  Mr.  G.  E.  Weare's  reply  to  Mr. 
Henry  Harrisse — London  :  privately  printed  for  the  author. 
1897  (560) 

i2mo.    T  4"  PP  3-'2. 


:ries,  xiK  49« 


Cabot  Biblfoarapb^ 


177 


Mr.  Prowse's  reply  to  Harrisse,  see  Nos.  390  and  493,  is  re- 
printed on  pp.  10-12. 

WEARE  (George  Edward)  John  Cabot  and  the 
Matthew  (561) 

In  Notes  and  Siueries, — London,  4.  September,  1897,  8th  series,  xii. 
189-191.     Reprinted  as  : 

WEARE  (George  Edward)  Cabot's  discovery  [.  .  . 
as  No.  560]  Mr.  G.  E.  Weare's  further  reply  to  Mr. 
Henry  Harrisse — London  1897  (562) 

izmo.    T  -f-  pp  1-8. 

WEISE  (Arthur  James)  The  Discoveries  of  America 
to  the  year  1525  by  Arthur  James  Weise — New  Tork^ 
Putnams,  1884  (563) 

8vo.     T  -j-  pp  iii-xii  -^  380  -|-  18  maps  -|-  plate. 
The  Cabots,  186-204. 

WELLER   (F.  S.). 

Mr.  Weller's  map  showing  a  conjeftural  route  for  Cabot's  1497 
voyage  is  mentioned  under  Markham,  No.  453. 

WILLIS  (William). 

The  Documentary  History  of  Maine,  edited  by  Mr.  Willis,  is  de- 
scribed under  Kohl,  No,  429. 

WiNSHIP  (George  Parker)  Cabot  Bibliography. 
Compiled  by  George  Parker  Winship  (564) 

In  the  Monthly  Bulletin  of  the  Public  Library, — Providence,  Rhode 
Island,  June,  1897,  iii.  137  157,  4to.     Reprinted  in  8vo,  2  T -f- 

PP  3-71- 
The  basis  for  the  present  work,  containing   237  titles.      The 

notes  were  taken  for  the  most  part,  by  quotation  or  in  abstra6l, 
from  the  published  opinions  of  Winsor,  Harrisse,  and  other  recog- 
nized authorities.  A  comparison  with  the  notes  in  the  present 
volume  reveals  many  curious  illustrations  of  the  partiality  and  mis- 
representation which  is  apt  to  result  from  a  failure  to  test  opinions, 
taken  at  second-hand,  by  a  carc^I  examination  of  the  thing  to 
which  they  refer. 

WINSHIP  (George  Parker)  John  Cabot  and  the  study 
of  sources.  (5^5) 

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178  Cabot  Biblioarapbi? 

In  the  Report  of  the  American  Historical  Association  for  1897,  - 
Washington,  1898,  35-4.1.     Also  issued  separately, 

A  protest  against  such  historical  writing  as  may  justly  be  char- 
aflerized  as  "  illogical  conclusions  maintained  by  baseless  inferences 
and  unwarranted  assumptions."' 

The  American  Historical  Re'vietu  for  Oftober,  1898,  iv.  159-162, 
contained  a  review  article  by  Mr,  Winship  on  Dawson,  Nos.  316- 
319,  Beazley,  No.  256,  and  Weare,  No.  558.  (565*) 

WINSHIP   (George  Parker)     Sebastian  Cabot,  1508 

(566) 

In  the  Geographical  Journal, — London,  February,  1899,  xiii.  204- 
209. 

A  statement  of  the  reasons  for  supposing  that  Cabot  may  have 
made  a  voyage  into  the  Arctic  regions  in  1508-9. 

WINSHIP  (George  Parker)     Cabot  on  the  American 
natives — 1497-1508  (566*) 

In  the  American  Anthropologist, — Neiv  York,  July,  1899,  i.  (new 
series)  588-590. 

A  note  on  the  references  to  the  natives  contained  in  the  accounts 
of  Cabotian  voyages  to  the  coasts  of  British  America. 

WINSHIP  (George  Parker)  Some  fa6ls  in  regard  to 
John  and  Sebastian  Cabot  (566j') 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  tor  25 
April,  1900,  new  series,  xiv. 

A  statement  of  the  reasons  for  some  of  the  statements  which 
appear  in  the  IntroduSlion  to  the  present  volume. 

WINSOR  (Justin)  Narrative  and  Critical  History  of 
America,  edited  by  Justin  Winsor — Boston^  Houghton, 
Mifflin  and  Company  (5^7) 

Folio.     8  volumes. 

Volumes  i.  and  viii.  arc  dated  1889  ;  iii.  and  iv.  were  copyrighted 
in  1884;  ii.  in  1886;  v.  and  vi.  in  1887  ;  vii.  in  1888. 

See  Deane,  No.  327.  Other  references  to  the  Cabots  are  noted 
in  the  indices  to  volumes  i.,  ii.,  and  iv.  Sebastian  Cabot's  La  Plata 
expedition  is  discussed  in  viii.  384. 

WINSOR  (Justin)  Christopher  Columbus  and  how  he 
received  and  imparted  the  spirit  of  discovery  by  Justin 
Winsor — Boston  1891.  (5^8) 

8to,     T  -^  pp  v-xi  -f  674, 


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The  part  played  by  the  Cabots  in  the  general  movement  which 
i;>  associated  with  the  career  of  Columbus  is  discussed  on  pp.  339- 
346,  624-628. 

WINSOR  (Justin)    Harrisse's  Discovery  of  North  America 

(569) 
In  the  Nation, — Ne-iv  York,  29  September  and  6  Oftober,  189a, 
Iv.  244-246,  264-266. 


WINSOR   (Justin)     Cabotiana 


(570) 


In  the  Nation, — Neiv  York,  7  December,  1893,  Ivii.  433-434. 
Mainly  a  review  of  Tarducci. 


WINSOR   (Justin)     The   Cabot    controversies 
right  of  England  to  North  America 


and   the 

(570 

In  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  No- 
vember, 1896, — Boston,  1897,  2nd  series,  xi.  156-169.     Also  issue 
separately. 


WINSOR  (Justin)  Cabot  and  the  transmission  of 
English  pouter  in  North  America.  An  Address  delivered 
before  the  New  York  Historical  Society  on  its  ninety- 
second  anniversary,  Wednesday,  November  18,  i8g6,  by 
Justin  Winsor,  LL.D. — New  York  1896.  (57^) 

8vo.    2  T  -f-  pp  3-38. 

WINSOR    (Justin)     Cabot  and  Bristol  by  Justin  Winsor. 

(573) 
In  the  Independent, — Nenu  York,  74.  June,  1897,  xlix.  No.  2534. 
Suggestive  of  the  way  in  which  tht  conditions  and  surroundings 
out  from  which  Cabot  sailed  influenced  his  impressions  of  the 
regions  upon  which  he  lighted  in  1497.  Mr.  Winsor  records  the 
curious  Bristol  custom  of  speaking  the  name  of  the  navigators  after 
the  French  fashion  (Cabo)  as  if  from  Chabot,  perhaps  the  original 
name  of  the  French  family  on  the  island  of  Jersey, — see  Lodge,  No. 

WINTHROP   (Robert  Charles). 

Mr.  Winthrop's  remarks  on  the  photographic  facsimiles  of  the 
Cabot  map,  No.  39^  are  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts 
Historical  Society  for  December,  1882,  xx.  39-40.  (57+) 

WOODBURY   (Charles   Levi)     The    relation   of  the 


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Cabot  36ibUoarapbK? 


fisheries  to  the  discovery  and  settlement  of  North  i\merica 
...  by  Charles  Levi  Woodbury — Boston  1880.        (575) 

8vo.     T  -|-  PP  3-26. 

The  evidence  which  convinced  Mr.  Woodbury  that  "neither 
Columbus,  Cabot,  nor  Cortereal  drew  the  French  and  Basque  "  to 
the  fishing  banks  is  stated  on  pp.  4-7. 

WRONG   (George  M.)     The  Cabots  (576) 

The  substance  of  a  paper  read  by  Protessor  Wrong  before  the 
Canadian  Institute  in  Toronto,  28  March,  1896,  was  printed  as  a 
review  of  Harrisse,  No.  387,  and  Dawson,  No.  317,  in  the  Re- 
'vieiv  of  Historical  Publications  relating  to  Canada ^ — Toronto y  1897, 
i.  28-33. 


ZERI  (AuGUSTo)  Giovanni  e  Sebastiano  Caboto.  Notizie 
di  Augusto  Zeri  (577) 

In  the  Re'vista  Marittima, — Roma,  March,  1881.  Also  issued 
separately,  pp.  11  -J-  map,  8vo. 

An  effort  to  prove.,  in  reply  to  Nicholls,  No.  467,  that  the 
Cabots  were  born  in  Italy. 

ZURLA  (Placido)  Di  Marco  Polo  e  degli  altri  viaggia- 
tori  Veneziani  piu  illustri  dissenazioni  del  P.  Ab.  D.  Placido 
Zuria — Fcnczia  1818-1819  (579) 

4to.     2  volumes.     T  -j-  pp  iii-viii  •\-  391  ;  408  -j-  4map.s. 

Giovanni  e  Sebastiano  Cabotto,  ii.  274-286.  A  map  shows  the 
routes  followed  by  the  two  Cabots  in  1496  and  by  Sebastian  in 
15*6. 


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